Character Quote by Vicki Pettersson

“A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It…

— James Thompson

“To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money…

— Dean Koontz

“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

— Robert Hughes

“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”

— Lucia Berlin

“O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero Karl Fried Muller

“And then he grasped that this city of machines, this city of sobriety, this fanatic for work, sought, at night, the mighty counterpoise to…

— Thea von Harbou

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“Descending, I went wandering whither chance might lead, in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment; and I got— I know not how— I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich…

— John Updike

“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more alive after…

— Fernando Pessoa

“We are, each and every one of us, addicted to chaos. Gorgeous, devouring, chaos. Every visceral pleasure comes from the moment when we truly…

— Michael R. Fletcher

“In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes…

— Helen Keller