York Quotes

“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorland, of course, vast tracts of brooding landscape under lowering skies, and across this heath strode brooding, lowering men intent on reaching their ancestral houses, where they were going to fling open doors and castigate orphaned yet resolute governesses. Or — preferably — the brooding, lowering men were on horseback, black horses with huge muscled haunches, glistening with sweat —”
― Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

“If it's to be, it's up to me.

to which I add;

If not now...then when?”
― Andrew Toynbee, A Construct of Angels

“In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.”
― Kevin Haworth, Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st-Century Jewishness

“In the Awakenings movie I found it very interesting that the most profound awakenings in the catatonic patients occurred in 1969, the year that the Aurora Borealis was seen from N.Y. to Louisiana. It seems the patients were getting environmental radiation stimulation in addition to their L-Dopa drug that year. L-Dopa plus radiation therapy may eventually be proven to be a very potent brain stimulant.”
― Steven Magee

“La memoria è una gran benedizione, Peter. E' la cosa più bella dopo la morte.”
― Paul Auster, City of Glass

“Ma il presente non è meno oscuro del passato, e il suo mistero è pari ai segreti che serba il futuro. Così va il mondo: un passo dopo l'altro, una parola e poi la successiva. Ci sono cose che Blue, a questo punto, proprio non può sapere. Perché la conoscenza arriva piano, e quando arriva spesso costa cara.”
― Paul Auster, Ghosts

“Non parlo tanto del desiderio, quanto della consapevolezza, della scoperta che due persone, tramite il desiderio, possono creare una realtà più potente di quella che ciascuna potrebbe creare da sola.”
― Paul Auster, The Locked Room

“Una volta tanto mi lasciai andare, senza volermi sentire superiore alla mia felicità, senza volermi guardare dall'alto o essere più intelligente dei miei sentimenti.”
― Paul Auster, The Locked Room

“Nessuno può sconfinare in un altro - per il semplice motivo che nessuno può accedere a se stesso.”
― Paul Auster, The Locked Room

“The Wars of the Roses…were one of the most confused and confusing chapters of English history; in which each usurper, as soon as he had gained the throne, found himself having to defend it against the next; in which so many members of the feuding families were closely inter-related; in which a man could be both hero and villain at one and the same time… One by one, the royal houses of England destroyed each other and themselves.”
― Ludovic Kennedy

“When I look at President Trump, I see what happens to someone that lives in a dense city environment with expansive views of the toxic urban infrastructure.”
― Steven Magee

“That's way too adorable," Tess said.
"You keep saying that coincidences are adorable when I don't see how one has anything to do with the other," Theo said. "Koala-pandas are adorable."
"You're adorable," Tess said.
Jaime said, "I'm thinking it's a little adorable, too. Cuddly, at least."
"You're hurting my head," said Theo.”
― Laura Ruby, The Shadow Cipher

“When I look at Manhattan, I see a huge amount of biologically toxic city infrastructure.”
― Steven Magee

“My first week living in the USA was marked by the 9-11 attacks.”
― Steven Magee

“Who are you going to trust regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic: President Trump or the sickened residents of New York City?”
― Steven Magee

“The massive COVID-19 outbreak in New York City demonstrated that dense urban environments are undesirable places for humans to live.”
― Steven Magee

“New York City is an absolute failure in the design of buildings that promote good human health.”
― Steven Magee

“There is so much toxicity associated with New York City that smart people avoid it.”
― Steven Magee

“Traveling to New York City during COVID-19 was like traveling to Chernoble.”
― Steven Magee

“It is important that USA healthcare workers realize that New York City is a 5G wireless radiation hot zone.”
― Steven Magee