Quote by Jamie Gilson

Being from Stockton, wouldn't change it for the world, love the place with all my heart.

— Brandin Cooks

“If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.”

— Daniel Suarez

“beginning. Not just in Chicago,”

— Marcus Sakey

“sometimes at the Sheraton hotel in Palo Alto.”

— Ashlee Vance

“Not that he regretted having killed the guy in Stockton. The one who'd been ready to shoot him over the five crumpled dollar bills…

— L.J. Smith

“I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos.”

— Jennifer Lee

“AS WE DRIVE BACK into Portland,”

— E.L. James

“Are you anywhere near Champaign-Urbana?" "No." "I went there once. I thought from its name that it would be a different kind of place.…

— Lorrie Moore

“Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.”

— Terri Haynes Roach

“Let me tell you, first, of a city.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The university is located between San Francisco, Oakland and my internal wish to kill myself.”

— L.J. Shen