City lights Quotes

“Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights, or something. But it occurred to me that you could probably see stars from the vast majority of the earth. It was city lights that were actually rare.”

“All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.”

“A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)”

“History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)”

“Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)”

“That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)”

“A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)”

“I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)”

“She resents the chipped paint of the table and the dingy closet they call a dressing room. (Dark City Lights)”