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,....

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

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them....

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

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

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.

For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in....

Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had....

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