“But do you think the achievements of the Americans -- envied the world over -- came without a cost? Just ask their… — Amor Towles Success 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 Comparison 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 Emotion Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it… — Amor Towles Aristocracy 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
“—You see this apple? Sweet. Crisp. Ruby red. It wasn’t always like that, you know. The first apples in America were mottled… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a… — Amor Towles Books 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
In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day.… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if we were to? We wouldn't… — Amor Towles Education 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 History Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true." "Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game--it was a modified version of the game. It was a version… — Amor Towles Fitness Copy Share Image
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years.… — Amor Towles Dad 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 Midnight Copy Share Image
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to… — Amor Towles Friendship Copy Share Image
“Rather than tucking in blankets and buttoning up coats, we must have faith in them to tuck and button on their own.… — Amor Towles Faith Copy Share Image
“He had that certain confidence in his bearing, that democratic interest in his surroundings, and that understated presumption of friendliness that are… — Amor Towles Business Copy Share Image
“There is is again, that slight stinging sensation of the cheeks. It's our body's light speed response to the world showing us… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that… — Amor Towles Failure Copy Share Image
“But as the Greeks teach us, there is only one remedy for that sort of hubris. They called it nemesis. We call… — Amor Towles Comeuppance Copy Share Image
“Suddenly,I could picture Tinker on the back of a horse somewhere: at the edge of the treeline under a towering sky...at his… — Amor Towles Ranch Copy Share Image
“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… — Amor Towles Fear Copy Share Image
