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“When you’re held underwater, you think only of air. I remember how I felt about Shanghai in the days after our lives changed -…

— Lisa See

“Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“I remember reading the Times in the subway, folding it awkwardly while leaning against the door, caught up in the words, worried about crashing…

— Gary Shteyngart

“I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“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

“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”

— Richard Peck

“As he left Chinatown behind, Alan thought of the woman he’d seen on the wharf the other day, the golden splendor of her gown,…

— Bonnie Dee

“I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and…

— Keary Taylor

“I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to sunshine. I'd…

— Emma Cline

“we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the window open.…

— Michael Connelly

“I shook my head. "it's not about living in a city." It wasn't. Back then, it wasn't just getting away. It was about not…

— Kat Rosenfield