Quote by A.R. Wise

“Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows…

— Waheenee

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of…

— Julian Barnes

“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in…

— Monica Hesse

“When I visited Fort Myers, I got the impression it was poor and residential with the exception of the ocean front. It was just…

— Steven Magee

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in…

— Markus Zusak

“I will always remember that year in Almonte, and how their sun seemed to shine a little brighter, and the Mississippi seemed to rush…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene, broken by intervals of begged and stolen…

— William Faulkner

“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's…

— L. Frank Baum

“A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

“I love coming back into Chersonesus in the afternoon; the city is lit up by the sun beginning to set. The sound of the…

— Destin Bays

“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with…

— William Faulkner

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson