Life Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture…

— Marcus Sakey

“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled roof, the…

— Marcel Proust

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

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

— Epictetus

“The world was evaporating under the sun and I was floating. The town was evolving according to the laws of some sublime chemical reaction…

— Marie Darrieussecq

“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they…

— Albert Camus

“That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet…

— Nina Antonia

“need for open air and an endless night sky. The sense of being small in such a vast universe was often soothing.”

— Suza Kates

“Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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