History Quote by Stephen King

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes…

— Marvin Allan Williams

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“Sometimes a house has two histories. One that's less well known. One that people have an interest in keeping less well known.”

— Kate Cann

“there are people in this town who work very hard to sanitize the history of the place.”

— Amy Cross

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.”

— Patrick Ness

“I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from life than…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Now that they had a secure hiding place almost a home it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently…

— Orwell, George

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but…

— Fredrik Backman