Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

“Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.”

— China Miéville

“Like an old sneaker, Riverbend was chewed up, worn out, and falling apart at the seams. The town didn’t even smell right.”

— Laura Hesse

“Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.”

— Arundhati Roy

“A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead.”

— Michael Lewis

“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.”

— C.S. Lewis

“As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its…

— Carolee Dean

“He wasn’t just leaving the valley, he was leaving with his brother. And his brother-in-law. And a card shark, a casino mogul and a…

— Heidi Cullinan

“I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church…

— Ray Bradbury

“There was almost an air of penance about her, as if, by doing these dirty jobs which she found so distasteful, she was trying…

— Kathy Shuker

“RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very…

— Robert Bolt