"A scattering of pinpoint lights shows up in the blackness ahead. A town or village straddling the highway. The indicator on the speedometer begins to lose ground. The man glances in his mirror at the ..."
- Cornell Woolrich
"There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either."
- R.A. Mathis
"One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as..."
- Edward Abbey
"The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life."
- Gayle Forman
"As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy of giving the people what they wanted, which Franco lived by, had pai..."
- Christopher Byford
"In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, p..."
- W.B. Yeats
"It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want."
- Shannon Celebi
"My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the ..."
- Helen Grant
"Over the next few days, every knowing glance and furtive look reminded me how much small towns loved to gossip. My mother delighted me each day by telling me what she’d heard. I’d pushed Leo behind a ..."
- Alice Clayton