Quote by David Levithan

“Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.”

— Richard Peck

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman

“...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

“‎The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it,…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town…

— Courtney Summers

“But there’s a million of these towns that are like factories, breeding hate and fear that only the fortunate will never meet And these…

— Volatalistic Phil

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they…

— Albert Camus

“Everyone in this town is frightening and friendly and kind and awful. But everyone everywhere is.”

— Joseph Fink

“Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but…

— Joyce Dennys

“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

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth