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“It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.”

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“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss would probably only have lasted a week before public interest moved elsewhere. Besides, in a city you are anonymous; the chances of being picked out as Kristel Kolvenbach's granddaughter would be virtually zero. But in a small town -- well, small towns everywhere are rife with gossip, but in Germany they raise it to an art form.”

Gossip Small Towns Opening Lines

Book:The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Source: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

“You've gotten to play big fish in this little pond, but you don't' know what it is to be a bottom feeder in a place like this.”

Small Towns Big Fish

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.”

Stereotypes Characters Small Towns Old Timers

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

“Do you believe a place can have its own distinct rhythm? I do. Just as surely as the pulling of tides. Just as meaningful as a beating heart. And just as mysterious as the throaty purr of a well-stroked cat. I believe every place has its own unique rhythm. And I believe we are either in or out of sync with it.”

Small Towns Rhythm Of Life In Sync With Life

Book:The Rhythm of Selby

Source: The Rhythm of Selby

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