The Frangipani Hotel Quotes

“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.”
― Violet Kupersmith, The Frangipani Hotel: Stories

“For one insane, brief moment, Mia imagined that Tuan was somehow able to see into her mind, her heart, and that his horror had been in response to seeing all the ugliness that was there beneath the skin, gnawing a hole somewhere deep and vital inside her.”
― Violet Kupersmith, The Frangipani Hotel

“They had discovered that excitement is really just smog and noise and never seeing the stars, and trash piled up in the streets. They would ride with their heads out the window, their faces softening as the city fell away and the world turned flat and emerald-colored again; they were waiting for the moment when we crossed into their province, when they would smack the dashboard and cry out, “Here! Here!”
― Violet Kupersmith, The Frangipani Hotel: Stories