Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me. — Amor Towles Character Copy Share Image
“For if serenity should be a hallmark of maturity, then impetuousness should be a hallmark of youth.” — Amor Towles Serenity Copy Share Image
“the Count threaded the needle faster than saints enter the gates of heaven.” — Amor Towles Gates of heaven Copy Share Image
“The lights flickered. The bands laid down their instruments and the crowds made quiety for the door.” — Amor Towles Light 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 totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes. — Amor Towles Being Copy Share Image
Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. — Amor Towles Cities Copy Share Image
“Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? I balled up the letter and threw it in the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was… — Amor Towles Fun 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
“Alas, Tis true that words are queer And yet my son, you need not fear. For in this volume can be seen… — Amor Towles English words Copy Share Image
“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy… — Amor Towles Allergy Copy Share Image
“With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize… — Amor Towles Convicts Copy Share Image
“I suppose a room is the summation of all that has happened inside it.” “Yes, I think it is,” agreed the Count.… — Amor Towles Better place 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 Character Copy Share Image
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a… — Amor Towles First impression Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Blue Copy Share Image
“The ever-attentive tender at bar was already lining up bottles of various sizes including yellow chartreuse, bitters, honey, and a vodka infused… — 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 Confidence Copy Share Image
If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite his love… — Amor Towles Friendship Copy Share Image
“But it was the Count’s review of the Contents—a list of 107 essays on the likes of Constancy, Moderation, Solitude, and Sleep—that… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
“For Jozef Galecki was one of those rare executives who had mastered the secret of delegation - that is, having assigned the… — Amor Towles Delegation Copy Share Image
“Nina had not contented herself with the views from the upper decks. She had gone below. Behind. Around. About. In the time… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“As long as there have been men on earth, reflected the Count, there have been men in exile. From primitive tribes to… — Amor Towles Exile Copy Share Image
“If one has been absent for decades from a place that one once held dear, the wise would generally counsel that one… — Amor Towles Home Copy Share Image
“Tis a funny thing, reflected the Count as he stood ready to abandon his suite. From the earliest age, we must learn… — Amor Towles Christmas eve 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 Change Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples.… — Amor Towles Agatha-christie Copy Share Image
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period. — Amor Towles Avant garde Copy Share Image
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.” — Amor Towles Friendship Copy Share Image
“giving consideration to appetizers before entrées can only lead to regrets. And” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss. — Amor Towles Choice Copy Share Image
“Or rather, he stood at a slight tilt induced by the wine, a sort of 12:02.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.” — Amor Towles Generosity Copy Share Image
