Growing pains Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“To return to the city of one's birth always felt like retreat.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“She had forgotten how to care about the city that had taken so much from her. Forgetting was the only way she had found…

— Claire Legrand

“She loved this city. She just didn’t like it much.”

— Faith Martin

“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”

— Ann Douglas

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing…

— Colum McCann

“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

“She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town.”

— Carson McCullers

“...San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to…

— Susan Wiggs

“she had traveled to America only to be reminded of how powerless she was,”

— Imbolo Mbue

“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels -…

— Wilkie Collins

“The idea that she would leave all of this - the rooms of the house once more familiar and warm and comforting - and…

— Colm Tóibín