For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.
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
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
If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.
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
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.
For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense. - Amor Towles
For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
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
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'…
Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you - Amor Towles
Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you
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
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…
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
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…
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. - Amor Towles
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
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