Inner life Quote by Olivia Sudjic

“Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities.”

— Lord Dunsany

“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

“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went…

— Bilal Tanweer

“All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.”

— Sidney Dark

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“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 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

“In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those…

— Kate Milford

“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

“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

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus