Conquest Quote by Robert Lyndon

“When the gold was half-melted and starting to run, Drogo reached into the flames, snatched out the pot. “Crown!” he roared. “Here. A crown…

— George R.R. Martin

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

— Anonymous

“In New York, boy, money really talks - I’m not kidding.”

— J.D. Salinger

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham

“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”

— Taylor Caldwell

“Does anyone come to New York clean? I'm afraid not. But crossing the Hudson I thought of crossing Lethe, milky river of forgetting.”

— Stephanie Danler

“I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“Money is dehydrated utopia.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Objectively, she knew she was in better shape than most, but that was the thing about New York: no matter how much money you…

— Laura Hemphill

“New York City is mediated by money so visibly. Everywhere everything is mediated by money, so perhaps you could make a brutalist argument for…

— Rebecca Wolff

“Rachel gestured toward the city beyond the alley. “The people out there? Humans who spend every day under the Demons’ heels? They’ve given their…

— S.G. Night

“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him…

— Nora Roberts