Quote by Kathleen O'Brien

“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

“He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.”

— John Steinbeck

“It wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it was still important. This was the town’s only source of local information, after all.”

— Amanda M. Lee

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.”

— Sam Walton

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“But every town had been promising. Every place at first had said, Here you go- You can live here. You can rest here. You…

— Elizabeth Strout

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,'…

— Thomas Wolfe

“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where…

— Kelly Braffet

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

— Patrick Ness

“The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like.”

— David Baldacci

“The paths to mountain peaks are ever rugged, but men reach the summits.”

— Percy James Brebner