Bad guy Quote by Jim Butcher

“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

“I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from life than…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighbourhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick…

— Jay Asher

“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've…

— Charles Bukowski

“What good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one thing that…

— Sarah Ockler

“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”

— Richard Peck

“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

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

“...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.”

— Zipha Keatley Snyder

“I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it’s time to leave.”

— Nelson DeMille

“So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known....I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I…

— Sarah Dessen

“...subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend…

— Wendy McClure