Quotes by : Amor Towles

If they (ghosts) wander the halls of night, it is not from a grievance with or envy of the living. Rather,....

There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions,....

...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells....

History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.

But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly....

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial.....

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful,....