Towns Quotes - Page 14

• What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

  Christopher Moore

  Names, Hail, Said

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• Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.

  Shel Silverstein

  Lying, Coffee, Apples

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• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  Rachel Caine

  Fear, Believe, Love You

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.84, Penguin

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• Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

  D. J. MacHale

  Reality, Saint, Looks

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• There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, People, United States

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

  Richard Peck

  Thinking, Cities, Small Town

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”, Dial

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Time, Kings, Flower

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Dark, Castles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

  Robin McKinley

  Eight, Cake, Two

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• What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Opposites, People

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.156

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Character, Class

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Night, Car, People

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.369, Penguin

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• Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cutting, Cities, Rivers

  Margaret Peterson Haddix, Obert Skye, Alan Snow, Anne Ursu, Jane Johnson (2006). “Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

  Philip Reeve

  Thinking, Voice, Said

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

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• Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Sweet, Valentine, Play

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.112, Vintage

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.

  Chris Cleave

  Fall, Clouds, Squares

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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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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• He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.

  Warren Ellis

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.

  Richelle Mead

  Light, Names, Important

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Thinking, Clothes

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

  Maureen Johnson

  Breakup, Rainbow, Guy

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