Getting hurt Quote by Terry Pratchett

“There was a typical Ankh-Morpork street scene outside, although people were trying to separate them.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Standing around watching people was, of course, Ankh-Morpork’s leading industry. The place was a net exporter of penetrating stares.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.”

— Terry Pratchett

“By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight, and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding…

— Terry Pratchett

“Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a…

— Terry Pratchett

“...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

“We were alone in the dark, even though the enormous theater was filled with probably a thousand people. We were a tiny island in…

— Claire LaZebnik

“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

“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

“In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world…

— Jerry Pinto

“(...)where tourists and people from the city came in search of sand, sun and expensive forms of boredome.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting…

— Robert Walser