End of time Quote by Amor Towles

“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles

“To live in Manhattan is to be persistently amazed at the worlds squirreled inside one another, the chaotic intricacy with which realms interweave...”

— Jonathan Lethem

“And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put…

— Mark Helprin

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

— Kurt Wenzel

“Manhattan, When I Was Young,”

— Carole Radziwill

“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble making both…

— William Maxwell

“We undid a button, turned out the light, and in that narrow bed we built the great city - ... until the sun rose…

— D. Nurske

“Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“Real New York and imaginary New York aren't easily separated. The stuff of a city isn't only material; it's spiritual as well.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.”

— Maryanne O'Hara

“I was born a master of the universe in Manhattan. Not Manhattan, New York City, and not Manhattan, Kansas, but Manhattan, the suburb of…

— Jarod Kintz