Fast City Life Quotes

#1. The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood - the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Maurice Sendak

#2. I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg

#3. When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

John De Ruiter

#5. Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Geoff Johns

#6. She picked up a taco, took a big bite, and moaned as it made its way down to her stomach. "I want to marry this taco."
"Lucky taco."
Honor stilled. That voice. That one-of-a-kind masculine scent. Bryce stood right behind her.

Robin Bielman

#7. New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first got here, it was incredibly exciting. It was also so hot. I didn't know New York got so hot. I'm not a fan of the heat!

Matthew James Thomas

#8. Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Edward Bellamy

#9. For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000
Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless
and not a little surprised.

Jasper Fforde

#10. Since most of us have only given or received love in a conditioned or partial way, the idea that anyone or anything can be read like an open book may seemforeign or scary - or even fantastical and ridiculous, absurd and fallacious.

Catherine Carrigan

#11. I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me

William Shakespeare