New York Quotes

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.

His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.

The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.

Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )

I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.

New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.

Chance is life's only certainty.

Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does

I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.

Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about.

She's an adversary, but undeniably an equal. Maybe she can bring me back from the beyond. If anyone can do it, I'm beginning to realize it could be her. Like she said, all I have to do is try.

You saw where I come from. No matter what I do or how I act, I'll always be the scum of the earth. I am who I am, and there's nothing you or anybody else can do to change that.

I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

That's just it. What if I can't protect you? I'll be outnumbered, outgunned. What if I can't get you out of there?

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

I told you. I don't do soft and gentle.

You need something more from me—something I wasn't able to give you before.

How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that’s a story.

I have nothing to make me feel good, except for you. The last thing I want to do is turn you into my new drug of choice.

Wow, I didn’t even hesitate to call her my girlfriend. That’s a first.

I wanna explore your body. I wanna kiss my way up and down it all night long.

New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

Aren't 3, 000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?

A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food

Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.

I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay