Never Can Say Goodbye Quotes

“And I discovered this was the best thing about New York: you could run away every day if you wanted to and still find yourself in a newly incarnated version of the city.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“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

“People often mistake New Yorkers for rude and mean, but they’re really just no-nonsense and efficient. They don’t have time, regularly, to be warm and friendly with everyone who crosses their path. Nothing would ever get done. But when the chips are down, when it matters, they drop their cool exteriors and become unabashedly human.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“always that feeling when you walk out the door and onto the street in New York that today, no matter what happened yesterday, you can begin again.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“I know one of the secrets the rest of the country hasn’t figured out yet: it’s not New Yorkers who are rude, it’s the tourists who’ve seen a movie about rude New Yorkers and think they have to act the same way when they come to New York who are rude.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“I told myself I was tired of New York, but I was tired of the story I lived there. I wasn’t tired of New York.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“I watched the night mostly from my window, sitting on the radiator, with the growing awareness that as much as I loved New York, we just weren’t right for each other anymore. We needed time apart, and because New York would never be the one to reject me, I knew I had to be the one to end things, at least for now. I’d loved New York so faithfully for so many years but I needed something else.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“No single city truly affects a person like New York does. It’s one of those undisputed truths the world over; you either hate it for your own reasons, or you can’t ever shake the feeling of being there.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“For most of the time I lived there, I was relatively certain that for better or worse, I’d never leave, even in low moments when staying felt like a marriage of convenience, the positives just barely outweighing the negatives. But then the equation shifted, and it began to seem as if, consistently, the city demanded more from me than it offered in return.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“Wherever I am is the beginning of an adventure.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“The subways, to my eyes, are a godsend: efficient, they get me where I want to go pretty quickly, they provide entertainment, sometimes via musicians who perform at station platforms, sometimes through the singing panhandlers who traipse through the cars, and most important, they are a stay against solipsism, proof positive that I am not alone in the universe.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York

“And then there are the subway readers of difficult books. I like to imagine that New Yorkers are more literate than the riders of other American metropolises.”
― Sari Botton, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York