Quote by Betty Smith

“I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;”

— Pete Hamill

“Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.”

— Lily Koppel

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to…

— Betty Smith

“You know what I like about New York?” he said. “There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just…

— Graeme Simsion

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

— D. Nurske

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

— Maryanne O'Hara

“Yellow daises tell me Brooklyn's been here. His flower girl. I brought nothing. Just myself. How fitting. Seems like that's all I've got anymore.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”

— Vivian Gornick

“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery…

— Sylvia Plath

“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

“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…

— Colum McCann