“Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.”
“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”
“The inhabitants of Cincinnati are proud of their city as one of the most interesting in America: and with good reason.”
“But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.”
“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”
“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."(The Mill)”