Lucy

“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby