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1 " Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, " Emerson." " Lake and Palmer?" " Ralph and Waldo. "
2 " And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress. "
3 " Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble. "
― Robert Louis Stevenson , Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
4 " It looks like the whole city is made out of stars. "
― Brian Selznick , The Invention of Hugo Cabret
5 " The city was different back then--poor and crumbling--kept alive only by the gritty determination and steely cynicism of its occupants. But underneath the dirt was the apple-cheeked optimism of possibility, and while she worked, the whole city seemed to throb along with her. "
― Candace Bushnell , Lipstick Jungle
6 " i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York. "
― Maureen Johnson , 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
7 " When my trust was suspended from the fragile thread of justice and in the whole city they were chopping up my heart's lanterns when they would blindfold me with the dark handkerchief of Law and from my anxious temples of desire fountains of blood would squirt out when my life had become nothing nothing but the tic-tac of a clock, I discovered I must must must love, insanely. "
― Forugh Farrokhzad
8 " London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale. "
― John Lanchester , Capital
9 " When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog. "
― Markus Zusak , Underdog (Wolfe Brothers, #1)
