Quote by Donald J. Sobol

“...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

“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

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

— Patrick Ness

“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“Someone peeled back the surface of our town, and the whole country saw what was underneath. By Easter 1980 we were creepier than Amityville.”

— Meredith Miller

“When I visited Fort Myers, I got the impression it was poor and residential with the exception of the ocean front. It was just…

— Steven Magee

“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

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

“It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.”

— Bill Bryson

“yet it was just as it is when you go back to a place from childhood – both exactly the same and quite different.”

— Eva Rice

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

— Jay Asher

“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”

— David Edison