Center of the universe Quote by Mark Jones

“I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Charleston is an extraordinary place. There is a deep connection between the residents and nearly three hundred and fifty years of history, and those…

— James Caskey

“Finally, it was the city that held us, the city they said had no center, that all of us had come to from all…

— Carolyn See

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

— Anonymous

“When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.”

— Bernard Bailey

“Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think that they have gotten to…

— James Caskey

“Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.”

— Tim Weiner

“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”

— Travis Scott Bowman

I love so many things about Charleston.

— Edi Patterson

“It was my father who called the city the Mansion on the River. He was talking about Charleston, South Carolina, and he was a…

— Pat Conroy

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town…

— Courtney Summers