Marriage Quote by Amor Towles

“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

“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

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

— Amor Towles

“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

“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

“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

“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

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

— Amor Towles

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.”

— Amor Towles

“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

“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

“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