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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 Towles
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In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions–we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.Amor Towles
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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.Amor Towles
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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.Amor Towles
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I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.Amor Towles
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There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.Amor Towles
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That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.Amor Towles
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That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.Amor Towles
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That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.Amor Towles
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Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.Amor Towles