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Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars… — Anna Godbersen
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Kobayashi Issa
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the… — Elif Safak
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls… — Elif Safak
He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves,… — Lauren Oliver
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine,… — Ellen Hopkins
In my dreams of this city I am always lost. — Margaret Atwood
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week… — Hunter S. Thompson
My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious… — Mira Grant
It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known… — Tammara Webber
He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?"… — Rick Riordan
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of… — E E Cummings
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. — Melina Marchetta
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal… — Adrienne Rich
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang… — Scott Westerfeld
He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. Thereâ€™s a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly and he thinks if… — Richard Siken
Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way… — Walter Benjamin
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned,… — James Sallis
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. — John Green
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. — Russell Baker

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