Hotel Angeline Quotes

“It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.”
― Susan Wiggs, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

“You have seven writers in your basement?”

Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much trouble.”
― Susan Wiggs, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

“She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she’d had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands.”
― Susan Wiggs, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

“Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn’t know were parched.”
― Susan Wiggs, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

“To read Hotel Angeline is to celebrate how this diverse group of writers (and readers, all of them) can pool their talents and expertise to come up with such an entertaining and soul-satisfying novel.”
― Nancy Pearl, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices