Amor Towles, Rules Of Civility Quotes

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.