As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably t…

- Amor Towles

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

- Amor Towles

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

- Amor Towles

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

- Amor Towles

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect'…

- Amor Towles

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

- Amor Towles

If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west st…

- Amor Towles

I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the…

- Amor Towles

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

- Amor Towles