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“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely. That was why he'd always dreamed…

— Daniel Alarcón

“He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.”

— Alice Hoffman

“He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe…

— Amy Lane

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model…

— Lyndsay Faye

“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing.…

— James Salter

“These were his people--a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He…

— Ted Dekker

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each…

— Rachel Joyce

“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

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky