Cities Quote by Colum McCann

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This…

— Pat Barker

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy…

— Terry Pratchett

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an…

— Terry Pratchett

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant…

— Douglas Adams

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The darkness moved around him, every shadow swaying, dipping, and rolling the way a room did after too many drinks, and woven through it…

— V.E. Schwab

“It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular wanton wonderment:…

— Henry James

He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up…

— Rachel Joyce

“The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which he came…

— Robert Silverberg