Beneath the surface Quote by Michael Connelly

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed alive and…

— Olivia Sudjic

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in…

— Markus Zusak

“Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a…

— Colum McCann

“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's…

— Olivia Sudjic

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“It was the people, the interconnection, everyone relying on everyone else, the closeness. The villages are all dying now, small-town America is dying, and…

— Lauren Groff

“The whole city was dangerous—because of chemicals and the uneven distribution of wealth and so on.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In certain quarters the quest for scapegoats had begun. It was important to know whose fault all this was. It was important to know…

— Salman Rushdie

“All we had to do was rock this one city to its knees and the cancer of fear would spread. The worl would crumble…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

— Robert Hughes