Sookie Tex

“New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

“New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.”
― Ralph Ellison

“And yet, there will always be something essentially elsewhere about New York. It is a place that people come to precisely because it doesn't ever fully offer itself. It's intoxicating. Keeps you on your toes. Keeps you drinking coffee and keeps you walking.”
― Becky Cooper, Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers

“No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers