Amor Towles Quotes

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.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

I found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself.
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I didn't want to share them. Because I didn't want to dilute them

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.