Quote by Jim Carroll

“show me the city that does not mourn its fallen whose pillars embrace white coffins and freeze time and distort space”

— Hanna Abi Akl

“When you come from the city to the town you lie wakeful in the absence of noise at first. You wait for something to…

— Stephen King

“swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the…

— Donna Tartt

“There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights,…

— Henry Mosquera

“but in the city in which I love you, no one comes, no one meets me in the brick clefts; in the wedged dark,…

— Li-Young Lee

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where…

— Jack Kerouac

“City of stars Are you shining just for me? City of stars There's so much that I can't see Who knows? I felt it…

— Justin Paul Benj Pasek

“I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals…

— Mhairi McFarlane

“A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It…

— James Thompson

“I was sleeping, and you woke me To walk on the chilled shore Of a night with no memory, Till your voice forsook my…

— Philip Larkin

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few…

— Robert Macfarlane

“dust on cities can be shaken for dreams”

— Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia