The Hidden Palace Quotes

“He'd given her his silences, and she'd filled them with her fears.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“She couldn’t understand why some girls seemed to relish drawing their attention. One might as well call out to a wolf, and offer it one’s throat.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“But his anger seemed out of reach now, somewhere beyond his sadness.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“I am no saint, and he is no monster for me to slay.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“It made little sense, and yet it was the truth.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“nothing more taxing than a novel to read, something frivolous and French.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“It’s easy to consider yourself altruistic when you live among the poor and the downtrodden. But if you were removed from their side, it wouldn’t be long before they faded from your mind.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Francis couldn’t regret the domestication that had placed the Winston name alongside the likes of Astor and Vanderbilt—and yet a certain vitality, he felt, had been lost along the way.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Thus a woman is strong by nature, for she was created from a bone, while a man, created from earth, is weak, and quickly dissolves”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Thus a woman is strong y nature, for she was created from a bone, while a man, created from earth, is weak, and quickly dissolves.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“To keep an economical kitchen, you must learn to be flexible, and salvage your mistakes. If a plan falls through, then change the plan.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Each winter brought distress, each spring its relief.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Greenwich Village was a mix of laughter and furious discussion, of immigrants and dilettantes who drank champagne and talked gaily of anarchy.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“You, too, would be free, if it were not for the work of men's hands.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“it struck him as the sort of thing that adults liked to say when what they meant was I was terrified, so I ran for it.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“like a hack-saw in a bakery case.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“They have so many boxes that they must number them to keep track.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“It reassured the girls that cooking was a skill, to be learned like any other—not some secret art that could only be gleaned in a loving home, at a mother’s side.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace

“Of all the myriad races of thinking creatures in the world, the two that most delight in telling stories are the flesh-and-blood humans and the long-lived, fiery jinn.”
― Helene Wecker, The Hidden Palace