Life Quote by Kahlen Aymes

“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but…

— Siri Hustvedt

“ (About beginning to write after moving from New York to Texas...) Honestly, there wasn't much else to do there.”

— Donna J. Stone

“All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.”

— Vivian Gornick

“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to…

— Paul Auster

“Why didn't I go back to New York? New York, New York; she'd never had any luck with anybody from New York. I was…

— Alfred Hayes

“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“Right then, I wanted to be as close to him as I could. I never wanted him to go. I needed him in my…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved -…

— Siri Hustvedt

“He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.”

— Melissa Bank

“I didn’t know what I wanted. I trained at the Kodokan and reflected at quiet shrines and enjoyed my jazz clubs and coffee houses…

— Barry Eisler

“I realized then how much alike we were. Both of us looked backwards to a beloved time that was lost to us, a time…

— Susan Palwick

“It had been building for a while, starting with a tiny ache, for life as I’d known it before, and culminating--once J accepted his…

— Ree Drummond