Exception Quote by Steven Magee

“I had spent a lot of time in Lee County and Fort Myers.”

— Steven Magee

“We drive northwest for an hour to Michigan. Michigan is pretty much like rural New Jersey, except it's flattened out and well planned and…

— Wendy Wunder

“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are. Small-town…

— Courtney Summers

“Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard…

— Steven Brust

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

— John Irving

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“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

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The…

— Meg Wolitzer

“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in…

— Markus Zusak

“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

“Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different.”

— Donald J. Sobol