“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
“..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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
