Quote by Amor Towles Download Open image ““Or rather, he stood at a slight tilt induced by the wine, a sort of 12:02.”” — Amor Towles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.” — Kafka, Franz Copy Share Image
“He was like a bottle and music was the wine… She liked to be near him when it poured.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“but the wine had muffled the voices, making it harder for her to read the intentions of the man sitting next to her.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Maybe Angelo was right. Maybe there was something. I still suspected it was the wine.” — Marie Sexton 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
