Quote by Karen Schwabach

“He couldn't wait to get back home. Home wasn't London. Home was wherever Robin was.”

— Josephine Myles

“But home did not seem the right word for it. It hadn’t quite been home for years. Not like it used to be.”

— Emory R. Frie

“London, he had decided, was a mad place, very much of itself, entirely unique. He thought he liked it.”

— Dave Hutchinson

“I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a place that…

— Jackie French

“I wasn't sure I was ready to go home. I believed that this city was magical. That it sang to me. And it seemed…

— Megan Crane

“No London is truly without magic”

— V.E. Schwab

“had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that…

— Jack London

“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”

— Celeste Ng

“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk…

— Hanif Kureishi

“The Houselands. Graveyard to the ones who got locked out. A chill ran up London’s spine. What the hell were they doing?”

— Anna Silver

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis