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“Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance,…

— P.R. Mason

“He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where…

— Terry Pratchett

“If the city were to drink itself insensible, this is how it might dream, like a sleeping dog, twitching and moaning.”

— Lia Mills

“This is my city; I was here, when this was all forest, long before people like you put the pavement down.”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.”

— Vincent Zandri

“I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets.…

— Philip K. Dick

“They rolled up the path, tree branches raking the windshield like angry wardens.”

— R.J. Lawrence

“After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear…

— Deborah Moggach

“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

“To think of how many times I have carted a lingering drunk out of my house in a wheelbarrow and leaned him up against…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a…

— Milan Kundera

“The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity…

— Jennifer duBois