118 Quotes About Small-town


  • Author Harriet Reuter Hapgood
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    But I like sleepy. I like nothing-ever-happens. I buy the same chocolate bar from the same shop every day, next to our village pond with its minimalist duck population of three, and then I check the Holksea village newsletter with no news in it. It’s comforting. I can wrap my whole life up in a blanket.

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  • Author John Steinbeck
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    In a small town where everyone knows everyone it is almost impossible to believe that one of your acquaintance could murder anyone. For that reason, if the signs are not pretty strong in a particular direction, it must be some dark stranger, some wanderer from the outside world where such things happen.

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  • Author John Cheever
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    Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of another time, had not been reconstructed to serve as nursing homes for that vast population of comatose and the dying who were kept alive, unconscionably, through trailblazing medical invention.

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  • Author Susan Meier
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    When Devon Donovan’s family buys Isabelle Cooper’s florist shop as an investment, she isn’t sure if it’s the worst thing that could happen…or her golden opportunity to get the gorgeous billionaire to finally notice her.

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