“ Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county… Fannie Flagg
“ 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
“ Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot
“ He thought moving to a small town would allow him to find a way to get along to some extent but people were just plain idiots. Christine Feehan
“ But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get togethe… John Kennedy Toole
“ Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you. Michael Lee West
“ 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
“ There's a big difference between want and need," she muttered to herself, picking her pad and pen back up. "I mean I want a bikini body, but I need chicken nuggets. Jill Shalvis
“ Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth. Jessi Kirby
“ You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules. Sally Henson
“ ...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Thus looked at from outside, these guests --in this dead-and-alive dining room, of this dead-and-alive house, of this dead-and-alive street, of this dead-and-alive little town--in grey, dead winter of… Patrick Hamilton
