Quotes of: Town Keyword

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

Moonlight Mile

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

My Antonia

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.

The Plague

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Paper Towns

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

Paper Towns

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

Paper Towns

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Paper Towns

I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)

Paper Towns

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Paper Towns

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

Paper Towns

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Paper Towns

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

Paper Towns

Looks like it's time to liven up this dead little town!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)

The Reality Bug

I’ll name my town “Unwelcome,” and the sign will say, “Welcome to Unwelcome.

This Book Has No Title

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

Whylah Falls

I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.

Winter Town

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

Bubba Sparxxx

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

Timothy Noah

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Philip Caputo

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Peter Maxwell Davies

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

Phillip Noyce