Quotes about Small towns

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I was too smart and that made people uncomfortable--most folks where we've lived our whole lives don't trust too much in — Roxane Gay, Difficult Women
In some ways, forcing me to leave was the best thing that could have happened to me. In other ways, it was a disaster. I — Ashly Lorenzana, Speed Needles
And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist p — Phil Volatile, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private — Jaime Allison Parker
There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel. — Molly Harper, Driving Mr. Dead
He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventua — Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club
Change is still resented on the Plains, so much so much so that many small-town people cling to the dangerous notion tha — Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize their isolation. Often — Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cop — Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator — Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either. — R.A. Mathis, Falling Down: Part 1 of the Homeland Series
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kin — Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of — Gayle Forman, I Was Here
As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the — Christopher Byford, Den of Shadows
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there ar — W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what — Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been bo — Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mothe — Alice Clayton, Nuts