Towns Quotes - Page 25

• It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia]

  Simon Pegg

  Princess, Years, Important

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• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  Pete Wentz

  Hands, Wish, Monsters

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• The whole town’s talking about the way Jax Stone sat in your hospital room and snag to you until you came out of your coma. Then he apparently wouldn’t leave you alone for a minute. The boy sounds hooked.

  Abbi Glines

  Boys, Talking, Sound

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• It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

  Isak Dinesen

  Dream, Taken, Heart

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

  Nicholas Sparks

  Toxic Waste, Gossip, Small Town

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• Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Boys, Shirts

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification."

  Frank Abagnale

  Writing, Police, Houston

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 1989.

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• Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Running, Rain, Rivers

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• All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

  John Green

  Hipster, People, House

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

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• [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Definitions, Way

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.30, Vintage

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• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Keys, Doors

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• All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Cities, Forever

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• I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

  Dolly Parton

  Growing Up, Boys, Hair

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• Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I was living in the house with a beautiful Mexican family for three months before I realized they weren't my cousins visiting from out of town. They were so nice. They called me "Quien es, quien es," which I thought was a beautiful name.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Cousin, Nice

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• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

  John Green

  Leaving, Paper Books, Inertia

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Real, Needs

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.230, Penguin

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• It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

  Sarah Dessen

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.31, Penguin

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• I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.

  Darynda Jones

  House, Alive, Mines

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.315, Macmillan

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• ...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

  Stephen King

  Lying, Bleeding, Happened

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.112, Anchor

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• I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear

  Paul Simon

  Passion, Home, Men

  Song: Slip Slidin' Away

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• I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.

  Rachel Caine

  Rights, Vote, Free Will

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• I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. “And where is this place?” she asked. “A . . . uh, a town called Split.” “Split.” She smelled really good—like blooming honeysuckle. “Um, yeah.” Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge.

  Rick Riordan

  Revenge, Fall, Eye

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