City Quotes
Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.
The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.
Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.
You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.She shook her head.He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart, " he told her, and left.
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.
There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.
Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.
So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.
The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.""And everything awful used to be something good.
So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.
Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.
That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.
I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working
Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
, , So maybe, for me, home is not the city, but the people.
We cannot bring peace in our city, when there is no peace in our homes.
Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.
The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.
What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?
New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.
Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)
Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)
When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.
And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!
It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay
Isabelle!" he called again. "Let down your raven hair!'"Oh my God, " Clary muttered. "There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn't there? I'm going to kill him.
Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.
And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."From Central Park Song: a Screenplay
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...
God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers
Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.
You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.
The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.
Sed lex dura lex, " said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.
And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?
Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just go around asking people what it's like to be a vampire.
Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation