Collette

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”
― Jimmy Breslin

“So leave. What does it matter. Everyone leaves. It is not the big story in the end.”
― Lauren Groff, Florida

“They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina