Quote by Hanif Kureishi

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise

“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

“The night felt like it had gone by so fast, yet every second of it was bright and burned into my mind, and I…

— Kevin Emerson

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“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

“It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

— Matthew Thomas

“I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country…

— Tolstoy

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“I wish I could show you the little village where I was born. It's so lovely there...I used to think it too small to…

— Mary Kelly

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with…

— Hanif Kureishi