“From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. Such is the fate of iron ore.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It was a marriage of two minds, of two ... spirits tilting as gently and inescapably toward the future as paper whites… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I gather you are an early riser, Alexander Ilyich,” he said after a moment of silence. “Men of purpose usually are.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I suppose Anne was right when she observed that at any given moment we're all seeking someone's forgiveness.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“She could have made a favourable impression on someone if she hadn't acted as though at any moment the city was going… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“How many times had he watched as a young beauty turned thirty degrees before her mirror to ensure that she saw herself… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The Chief Administrator considered this question for a moment and then, leaning back in his chair with the barest hint of a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time men in pursuit of wisdom had routinely retreated to mountaintops, caves, and cabins in the woods. So,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Wallace was just the sort who blends into the background of the school photo (or the greeting line at the cotillion) but… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“No doubt there have been moments when your life has taken a bit of a leap forward; and no doubt you look… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Each city has its own romantic season. Once a year, a city's architectural, cultural and horticultural variables come into alignment with the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are still skeptical. Well then, what about you? No doubt there have been moments when your life has taken a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Whatever their story, Eve was breathing easy now - for the moment forgetful, vulnerable, at peace. It's a purposeful irony of life,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Like the wheeling of stars,' muttered the Count as he paced. "That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“After meeting someone by chance and throwing off a few sparks, can there be any substance to the feeling that you've known… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It is a bit of a cliché to characterize life as a rambling journey on which we can alter our course at… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov stirred at half past eight to the sound of rain on the eaves. With a half-opened eye, he… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Surely, the span of time between the placing of an order and the arrival of appetizers is one of the most perilous… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“chance encounters—encounters which in the moment had seemed so haphazard and effervescent but which with time took on some semblance of fate.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion…if the next thing you're going to say makes you… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How humbly it bows its head as the emperor is dragged… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But events can unfold in such a manner that overnight the man out of step finds himself in the right place at… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Rather than sitting in orderly rows in a schoolhouse, wouldn't one be better served by working her way towards an actual horizon, so that… — Amor Towles Copy Share
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Mostly, he said, I've been thinking about what I'm not going to do. When I think of the last few years, I've been hounded… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename it, without… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.” — Amor Towles Copy Share
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two,… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort… — Amor Towles Copy Share
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Sometimes,” Nina clarified, “everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in… — Amor Towles Copy Share
