Quotes about Towns

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Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fire — Jonny Steinberg, Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa
. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me. — Margo Roth Spiegelman
The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institu — Edward Pearson Pressey, History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town
We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details — Edward Pearson Pressey, History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town
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
It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. — John Green, Paper Towns
There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the ot — Mehmet Murat ildan
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
And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish, the grea — Jack Kerouac, Maggie Cassidy
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
Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of — J. Dylan Yates, The Belief in Angels
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
I'm supposed to carry you over the threshold, right?"I laugh. "If that's what you're doing, I must've slept through some — M. Leighton, Down to You
Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit mu — Halldór Laxness, Independent People
Everything's uglier up close.Not you. — John Green
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