Quote by Chris Hilton

“I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it’s time to leave.”

— Nelson DeMille

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what…

— John Wyndham

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in…

— Markus Zusak

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

— A.M. Homes

“I was sick of this town and everything in it.”

— Jay Asher

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.”

— Toni Morrison

“I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed…

— Megan Crane

“...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