Place Names

Famous quotes containing the words place and/or names:

“This was your place of birth, this daytime palace,
This miracle of glass....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)