Ayesha

“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 we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Most people have more needs than wants. That's why they live the lives they do. But the world is run by those whose wants outstrip their needs.”
― Amor Towles