Cities Quotes

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The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't… — Neal Shusterman
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready… — Mitch Albom
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city… — Walt Whitman
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even… — Douglas Adams
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off.… — Richard Paul Evans
There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond,… — Kate Morton
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii… — Jim Butcher
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters… — Tom Robbins
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense… — Tahir Shah
You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the… — Jeremiah Burroughs
If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if… — Cassandra Clare
It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order."… — Cassandra Clare
Anyway, he's [Simon] obviously not here. Go back to what you were doing. What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you… — Cassandra Clare
Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she… — Rick Riordan
You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're… — Shannon Hale
I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog… — Isaac Marion
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday… — Emile M. Cioran
Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the… — Cecily von Ziegesar
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb.… — Truman Capote
Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm… — Nora Roberts
Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all… — Kurt Vonnegut
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The… — Arthur Rimbaud
When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected… — Ilona Andrews

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