New york city Quote by Frances Trollope

“again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in…

— Christine Evelyn Volker

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of…

— Henry James

“Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a…

— Jude Morgan

“The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.”

— Peter Matthiessen

“The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village…

— Anne Weale

“recalling our life in the old days at Combray with my great-aunt, at Balbec, Paris, Doncières, Venice, and the rest;”

— Marcel Proust

“The Place Blanche, Paris, Life itself. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can…

— Jean Rhys

“a middle-aged lady in a small country town, by doing no more than yield whole-hearted obedience to her own irresistible eccentricities, and to a…

— Marcel Proust

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except…

— Lilian Whiting

“Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And the boat and the dock and the gravel on the shore, the trees sky-pointed or crouching, leaning out over the water, the complicated…

— Alice Munro

“Her way with the chaos in her mind was to cultivate it through the articulations of others, by which she meant the reading of…

— Austin Wright