“Our national unity was the secret of the force of each of the members. New York could not be New York nor Ohio be Ohio without Massachusetts and without Georgia. And a government which had not the right to coerce had not the right to exist.”

“…Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.”

“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”

“Surprising news from New York, the whistle-blower had his whistle blown!”

“Has he not accurately anticipated both the fact and the motive of the present attitude of the State of New York? Is it not commercial gain and mercantile ascendancy which prompt their warlike zeal for the Federal Government? At all events, it is a little unreasonable in the New York politicians to require us to treat the South as rebels, in the fact of the opinion of our highest European authority as to the right of secession.”

“… In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers…”

“New York is basically a new version of York. But York just got a cathedral…”

“Green, John. (2012). The Fault in Our Stars. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 313..”

“New York, New York. Big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain't always what it seems.”

“That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.”