City hall Quote by P.R. Mason

“He was looking into that strange place, the middle distance, the most mysterious, human, and rich of all distances. And from his eyes came…

— Sebastian Barry

“Finally I saw something. Out in the distance, there was a bright and shiny rippling pillar in the water. It continued to move back…

— Meaghan Rauscher

“I followed the river to the shallows where it spoke of its bed, in whispering tones as gentle as the sun's growing warmth.”

— Anonymous

“Then I saw it. Little pins of light that grew larger as I watched, a city that seemed to bloom from the darkness, spreading…

— Megan Chance

“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the perfect reflection…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like…

— Ayn Rand

“Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.”

— John Crowley

“At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The river asked me who I was to be gazing so longingly into her curving body of cascading dreams and shifting beauty.”

— Todd Crawshaw

“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together…

— Eudora Welty

“The river narrowed, quickened, its surface trembling like the eyes of dreamers.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a…

— Simon Van Booy