Provincial Life Quotes

“I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world.”
― Hope Larson, Salt Magic

“Limburg remained what society had been from the first: an amateur speculation. Life, the provincials insisted, might yet be anything we told it to be.”
― Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

“The foreign correspondents who flocked to Christchurch were at once struck by the incongruity of a murder of the foulest kind occurring in what the Sydney Sun-Herald called 'New Zealand's quietest, staidest, most Victorian-English city - a city of bicycles, lace and old ivy.”
― Peter Graham, Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century