Cities Quote by Sheridan Hay

“This strange, beautiful city was my home and that was enough. Whatever happened I would deal with it.”

— Chris Hilton

“And so I sat in the centre of this old city that I loved, which itself sat at the bottom of a tiny island.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.”

— Toni Morrison

“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

“I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it’s time to leave.”

— Nelson DeMille

“When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what…

— John Wyndham

“The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid…

— Maya Angelou

“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

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with…

— Hanif Kureishi

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

— A.M. Homes

“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