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hometowns Quotes
Seven of the best book quotes about hometowns
#1
“You know how you can tell when you’re getting close to one? The smell. You can smell a town from miles away. It smells like smoke. And raw sewage.”
author
Rick Yancey
book
The 5th Wave
character
Cassie
concepts
sewage
hometowns
smells
smoke
#2
“That’s the thing I hated most about Gatlin. The way everyone had something to say about everything you said or did or, in this case, wore.”
authors
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
book
Beautiful Creatures
character
Ethan
concepts
hometowns
gossip
self-awareness
judgmental
#3
“There was nothing, nothing, Gatlin loved better than a spectacle.”
authors
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
book
Beautiful Creatures
character
Ethan
concepts
hometowns
gossip
observations
#4
“The town looked lonely, and it made me sad. Somehow the magic was gone, without her.”
authors
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
book
Beautiful Creatures
characters
Ethan
Ethan's mom
concepts
hometowns
Emptiness
loneliness
sorrow
Remembering Loved Ones
#5
“The town was empty, but for the first time it didn’t seem deserted, and I didn’t feel alone.”
authors
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
book
Beautiful Creatures
character
Ethan
concepts
closure
empty
hometowns
not alone
#6
“It wasn’t like Amma to side with everyone else in town, considering that was usually the wrong side of things.”
authors
Kami Garcia
Margaret Stohl
book
Beautiful Creatures
characters
Ethan
Amma
concepts
hometowns
taking sides
Opposition
#7
“Evil is a faceless stranger,
living in a distant neighborhood.
Evil has a wholesome, hometown face,
with merry eyes and an open smile.
Evil walks among us, wearing a mask
which looks like all our faces.”
author
Dean Koontz
book
The Book of Counted Sorrows
concepts
evil
strangers
neighborhoods
hometowns
masks
disguises
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