Quote by Lyndsay Faye

“I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so…

— M.B. Julien

“He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear—the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty…

— Edward Abbey

“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely. That was why he'd always dreamed…

— Daniel Alarcón

“But as I watched him smile back at me and zip his coat, I saw everything in the world build up and then everything…

— Marina Keegan

“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

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in…

— Nathan Reese Maher

“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

“What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.”

— David Edison

“I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”

— Marina Keegan

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer