299 Quotes by Amor Towles

I suppose Anne was right when she observed that at any given moment we’re all seeking someone’s forgiveness.

All poetry is a call to action.

He looked like a man who had gained confidence through exposure to a hostile environment; like one who no longer owed anything to anyone.

Without a doubt, it was a book for when the birds had flown south, the wood was stacked by the fireplace, and the fields were white with snow; that is, for when one had no desire to venture out and one’s friends had no desire to venture in.

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

While the splendors that elude us in youth are likely to receive our casual contempt in adolescence and our measured consideration in adulthood, they forever hold us in their thrall.

This led to a debate between the two men on the differences between what was probable, plausible, and possible.

Not only did the Bolsheviks seem to dwell on the same sort of subject matter day to day, they celebrated such a narrow set of views with such a limited vocabulary that one inevitably felt as if one had read it all before. It.

That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only does every last one of them demand its moment on the stage, it insists upon making a soliloquy full of weighty pauses and artful hesitations and then leaps into an encore at the slightest hint of applause.