Books Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“Everything about this place reminded me of the fantasy novels that I’d read when I was little. I’d always wanted to be a part…

— Aprille Legacy

“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

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The…

— Meg Wolitzer

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“From my own novel. Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without…

— Ben Farmer

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente