“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“When one experiences a profound setback in the course of an enviable life, one has a variety of options. Spurred by shame,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Quite simply, the Count’s father had believed that while a man should attend closely to life, he should not attend too closely… — Amor Towles 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 Copy Share Image
“Who would have imagined,” he said, “when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the Count thought it worth considering how one was most likely to achieve this… — 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
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided… — 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
“Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the Count thought it worth considering how… — 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
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“a parent’s responsibility could not be more simple: To bring a child safely into adulthood so that she could have a chance… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in… — 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
“Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that… — 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 bit of a cliché to characterize life as a rambling journey on which we can alter our course at… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I love Val. I love my job and my New York. I have no doubts that they were the right choices for… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 been hounded… — Amor Towles 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 led without… — 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, not only… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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 miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
