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 TowlesWhen a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace in memories of close-knit days. But when your daughter runs away, it is the fond memories that have been laid to rest; and your daughter's future, alive and well, recedes from you like a wave drawing out to sea.
Amor TowlesWhat was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.
Amor TowlesI've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.
Amor TowlesAnyone who has ridden the subway twice a day to earn their bread knows how it goes: When you board, you exhibit the same persona you use with your colleagues and acquaintances. You've carried it through the turnstile and past the sliding doors, so that your fellow passengers can tell who you are - cocky or cautious, amorous or indifferent, loaded or on the dole. But you find yourself a seat and the train gets under way; it comes to one station and then another; people get off and others get on. And under the influence of the cradlelike rocking of the train, your carefully crafted persona begins to slip away. The super-ego dissolves as your mind begins to wander aimlessly over your cares and your dreams; or better yet, it drifts into ambient hypnosis, where even cares and dreams recede and the peaceful silence of the cosmos pervades.
Amor TowlesOld times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Amor TowlesI told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.
Amor TowlesLearning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America
Amor TowlesEmily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Amor TowlesShe could have made a favourable impression on someone if she hadn't acted as though at any moment the city was going to step on her
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