Towns Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

  Taylor Swift

  Shining, Empty, Fireworks

  Song: Dear John, Album: Speak Now, 2010

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• I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

  John Green

  Years, Who Cares, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Before we left town, Antonio pulled into a strip mall and went in to get subs and salads, leaving Clay and me half naked and bleeding in the car, and Cain unconscious in the trunk. No wonder I was anxious to get back to Toronto. Spend too much time around these guys and you become a little too nonchalent about blood-soaked clothes and bodies in the trunk

  Kelley Armstrong

  Blood, Clothes, Car

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• Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Hands, Mountain

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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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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• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  William Shakespeare

  Fields, Midsummer, Goblin

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.121, Callisto Media Inc

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• M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

  Victor Hugo

  Fate, Thinking, Mouths

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.695, BookCaps Study Guides

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• From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Distance, Night, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.146, Penguin

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• I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.141, A&C Black

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• I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

  Mark Twain

  Hilarious, Inspiration, Ironic

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• I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

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• A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

  Libba Bray

  Farewell, Apology, Men

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press

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• You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!

  Ken Follett

  Kings, Wall, War

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.1204, Penguin

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• He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Watches, Use

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.102, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Ideas, People, Normal

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “The Back Door of Midnight”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Sea

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Cheer, Fall

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• I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mind, Pay, Dread

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• I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Sports, Dream, Home

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sexy, Jesus, Faithful

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2011). “Call Me Irresistible: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Greatest Fear

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

  Lisa Unger

  People, Chance

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