Towns Quotes - Page 14

• My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

  John Barth

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

  John Green

  Nice, Eye, Dark

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

  Wallace Stegner

  Character, People

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.77, Penguin

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• It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

  John Green

  People, World, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

  John Green

  Shopping, Needs, World

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Jobs, Nice, School

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• Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

  Henry Ford

  Children, People, Fifteen

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1930). “Moving Forward”

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• I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?

  Patrick Ness

  Lying, Believe, World

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

  John Green

  Mirrors, People, Looks

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• Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .

  Shan Sa

  Running, Fate, Tree

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• Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

  John Green

  Thinking, Paper, Mystery

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.8, A&C Black

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• You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won’t have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain’t big enough for the two of us? (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Littles, Enough

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• Honey, there’s not a single woman in this town who doesn’t know about Sanctuary, Land of the Bodacious Gods. Heck, me and my girlfriends want to get together and vote Mama Lo an award for her policy against hiring any man not seriously buff…Not that you’re not buff. You can certainly hold your own against the Sanctuary Hotties. But face it, haven’t you ever noticed that this place is like Hooters for women? (Sunshine) No, I can honestly say that I’ve never noticed how good-looking the men at Sanctuary are. Nor have I ever cared. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girlfriend, Sunshine, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.328, Macmillan

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• You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I don’t know, three, four hours trying to keep them from going after the Roman. Then, just when I could relax and do my job, I find out there are Daimons in the swamp and no Talon to kill them. And why wasn’t Talon here? Because Tarzan was swinging off a balcony to save Jane from Cheetah. Now all I can do is stand here and say, next fiasco, please, right this way. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Night, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.823, Macmillan

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• Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

  Voltaire

  Art, Blessing, Cities

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Race, Long

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• You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob

  Lora Leigh

  Coffee, Beer, Order

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• In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

  Celia Rees

  Nine, Rags, Three

  Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black

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• It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Running, Yankees, Locks

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jan 26, 2013

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• Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

  Kristin Hannah

  Animal, Loner, Going Out

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.

  Joe Meno

  Stars, Believe, Night

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.221, Akashic Books

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• She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.

  Michael Grant

  Heart, Eye, Blood

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• I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

  Johnny Cash

  Long, Black, Politics

  Song: Man In Black

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• The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

  John Green

  Hipster, Unfair, Middle

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.236, A&C Black

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• There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one.

  Margo Lanagan

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

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