The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives”
“There is exquisite lightness in waking each morning with the knowledge that the worst has already happened.”
“One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
“I'm no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.”
“What kept her in the kingdom was the previously unimaginable condition of not having to think about money, because that’s what money gives you: the freedom to stop thinking about money. If you’ve never been without, then you won’t understand the profundity of this, how absolutely this changes your life.”
“There’s an inherent pleasure in being unseen.”
“Give me quiet, he thought, give me forests and ocean and no roads. Give me the walk to the village through the woods in summer, give me the sound of wind in cedar branches, give me mist rising over the water, give me the view of green branches from my bathtub in the mornings. Give me a place with no people in it, because I will never fully trust another person again.”
“It’s possible to both know and not know something.’ ”
“A revelation earned only in hindsight: beauty can have a corrosive effect on character. It is possible to coast for some years on no more than a few polished lines and a dazzling smile, and those years are formative.”
“It is possible to leave so much out of any given story.”
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Book Keywords:
unseen, invisibility, memories, invisible
