First-sentence Quote by Michael Patrick MacDonald

“Sometimes I miss Boston', I said. It was a timid confession. I missed it every day - its space, its familiar streets and smells.…

— Paul Theroux

“Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river; you'll need that bridge to cross…

— israelmore ayivor

“Remember this, I told myself. Remember how quiet today is. I had the newspaper, which I would keep for years, and I was on…

— Stephanie Danler

“This momentary bridge. The wonder of a shared memory, returned. Of a place once theirs and a life that had already been lived.”

— Paul Yoon

“And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put…

— Mark Helprin

“all these memories make me want to go back there”

— Weezer

“I suppose Boston and its inhabitants have by now recovered from your visit?” “I guess so, but Boston was burning right cheerfully as I…

— L.A. Meyer

“The walk back to the subway and the subsequent ride to my apartment in Queens is long, providing me with too much time to…

— Jasinda Wilder

“Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.”

— Daria Snadowsky

“I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just…

— Mira Bartok

“I hate Brooklyn.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”

— Matthew Pearl