“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.”
“Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?”
“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”
“D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.”
“If you don't keep moving, you'll never get anywhere.”
“Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream; the city had one of the lowest literacy rates in the country, and along with illiteracy went a lack of morals.”