The Thousandth Floor Quotes

“Didn't you feel me, loving you from across the ocean?”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Maybe that was just the way love went - it was something that happened to you, and the best preparation you could hope for was the chance to take a deep breath before the wave of it crashed above you and you were in over your head.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“If Rylin had learned anything by now, it was that in real life, you never quite knew what was coming. You had to take the bad with the good. You had to take a chance, hold your breath, and trust people. After all, the fun of real life stories is that they're still being written.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Someday, Avery, you'll learn that it's not much use running away from things if you have to eventually come back and face them.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Some secrets are better buried.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“No one should have to confess to murder alone. Haven't you heard? That's what best friends are for.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“She knew this was reckless; it was dangerous, but like all dangerous things, it had a deep, thrilling undercurrent that was richer and better and more alive than anything safe.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Typical New Yorkers, forever determined to bring the world to them, as if they couldn't be bothered to leave their tiny island.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“That was what she loved about New York. That feeling of utter aliveness, a rush and flow of ruthless, furious energy. That New York belief that this was the center of the world, and God help you if you were anywhere else.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“How could she possibly explain the way she felt about New York? She loved it, in that strange way you can love something thaat never loves you back, because it has left its imprint on your soull. Calliope belonged in New York, or maybe she belonged to New York.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“There was so much here, so much color and taste and light and motion. So much pain and so much hope. The city was ugly and beautiful at once, and it was always changing, always reintroducing itself to you; you couldn't look away even for a moment, or you might miss the New York of today, which would be differend from tomorrow's New York and next week's New York.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“A city is a living thing, if it doesn't grow it withers and it dies.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

“Calliope got to stay in New York and live a stable, "normal" life for the first time in years. But it came with a tremendous price tag: she couldn't be herself. Although, was anyone really themselves in New York?”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky