Desolation Quote by Beryl Markham

“...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating…

— Sinclair Ross

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“People didn't forget anything in a small town.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes it rained, but mostly it was just dull, a land without shadows. It was like living inside Tupperware.”

— Bill Bryson

“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the…

— John Irving

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the…

— J.R.R. Tolkien