The Address Quotes

“We all have our own magnificent prisons, even the queen, I’d venture.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“Even if the gifts her mother ultimately gave her were a disappointment—a pincushion or a dreary pinafore—the unwrapping was always a delight.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“She finished updating the ledgers and was about to head out to inspect the turndown of the guests’ rooms when a man rapped on her office door. She knew it was a man from its hard, hollow sound. Maids’ knuckles were barely audible, already apologizing for disturbing her, but the men, whether Mr. Birmingham or the janitor, had no such qualms.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“I wouldn’t have been able to give him everything you have. Such a chance at a grand life.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“Her mother’s suffering should have been warning enough, but Sara had convinced herself that her own story would have a different ending. No such luck. Men betrayed, women endured.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“Music, where members of New York’s high society gathered for a taste of culture, and a rustic Gothic Revival church on Twentieth Street where they prayed. Mr. Camden was the only man in the fabric shop other than the store owner, but he didn’t”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“Several books provided inspiration, including Stephen Birmingham’s Life at the Dakota; Andrew Alpern’s The Dakota: A History of the World’s Best-Known Apartment Building; Elizabeth Hawes’s New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869–1930); Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Mad-House; and Tessa Boase’s The Housekeeper’s Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address

“She could tell people what to do and sound authoritative, even if underneath it all was a fear of being discovered, found out, a fraud.”
― Fiona Davis, The Address