The City Quotes

Some nights, we were a city of two.

It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day

I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...

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.

Chance is life's only certainty.

For the devil has no power . . . except in the dark." - Madame Dorothea

I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

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

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are

Everything happens for a reason.

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

The fates lead her who will

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

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

Freedom breeds uncertainty

I can't go back, " said Towser. "Nor I, " said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog, " said Towser. "And me, " said Fowler, "back into a man.

I get so sad that sad gets to be.So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so city girl on you. I go so crazy I don't know what to do.

Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That’s why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your needs if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

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?

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world!