Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

“...the city of Naples was like this: wonderful from a distance, but when seen close up, it was fragmentary, indefinable, and coarse...”

— Franco di Mare

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Florence peered out her living room window. What a dismal day. No sun, just sullen gray clouds like yesterday. And no sign of the…

— Anonymous

“They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the café and looked at the terrace where…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I saw strangers’ faces passing me, a brief sympathetic glance, a wolf whistle from a car at the soaking-wet girl. No help was to…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“Marco hurries up the front steps of the house he’d left just hours before and bursts into the living room. He sees Anne on…

— Shari Lapena

“There is a city beneath the streets”

— Robert E. Sullivan Jr

“Underfoot crunches the oldest of city dirt, last crystallizations of all the city had denied, threatened, lied to its children.”

— Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

“The cars rushing below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding. The two boys on the walkway,…

— Jonathan Lethem

“In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world…

— Jerry Pinto