The Alternatives Quotes

“Her ash-brown hair, cut into a bob with a general-purpose scissors, silvers the pillow.”
― Caoilinn Hughes, The Alternatives

“There is a prosperity of lamps.”
― Caoilinn Hughes, The Alternatives

“Maeve works surgically, intent on livening the food at a precise point in the future: it must revivify the moment it meets the palate, not a second sooner.”
― Caoilinn Hughes, The Alternatives

“After another twenty minutes of preparation – minutes that are squeezed for every second – Maeve makes her appearance at the long table to announce the menu. Even as she addresses the company, she is rehearsing for the cutting, piercing, brushing, layering, reducing, resetting, pouring, piping, grating, turning, drizzling, shaving, dusting, whipping, enrobing, adjusting, placing, plating choreography of her hands, which will commence the second she’s back upstairs. They all pay her their full attention, with a sort of bovine curiosity and gastrological suspense.”
― Caoilinn Hughes, The Alternatives