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“They said all the world was a stage, and Lydia had never been very convinced of that. But a small town was most definitely a stage when drama was going on.”

Book:Tough Luck Hero

Source: Tough Luck Hero

“Wink? she thinks. Where the fuck is Wink?”

Book:American Elsewhere

Source: American Elsewhere

“By the time a town is 75 or 100 years old, it may be filled with those who have come to idealize their isolation. Often these are people who never left at all, or fled back to the safety of the town after a try at college a few hundred miles from home, or returned after college regarding the values of the broader, more pluralistic world they had encountered as something to protect themselves and their families from...”

Memoir Small Towns Spiritual Memoir Binghamton Kathleen Norris Spiritual Geography

Book:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.”

Memoir Geography Small Towns Spiritual Memoir Prophetic Imagination Binghamton Kathleen Norris Spiritual Geography

Book:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“Alice's mother used to host wild edible classes that would attract a lot of people, but this was a small town and once you teach those interested few everything you know, then there's no one left to teach. It becomes, after a while, a strategy for convincing others that your way of life is important.”

Small Towns Story Collections

Book:We Could've Been Happy Here

Source: We Could've Been Happy Here

“Next door was a vegetarian café and deli, and next to that was the Wooly Bear yarn shop. Its logo was a caterpillar in shades of yellow, green, and scarlet. Maggie went in. The shop was warm and bright, with one entire wall given over to cubbyholes filled with yarns of every hue in many weights and fibers. The opposite wall held small skeins and spools of thread on pegs for embroidery and quilting. There were racks of pattern books and magazines, and in the back a mini classroom was set up with a small maple table and folding chairs, now accommodating a group of eight-year-olds wielding fat knitting needles and balls of oversize wool. A girl of about sixteen wearing a Rye Manor sweatshirt was helping a little boy to cast on stitches.”

Knitting Small Towns Yarn Shop

Book:The Affliction

Source: The Affliction

“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.”

Fate Gossip Small Towns

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables