The Paragon Hotel Quotes

“God, it’s like teaching a snake to play tennis.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“I found her at a theater in New Orleans, meowing to raise hell in the orchestra pit. In retrospect, I think she really was attempting to contact her cohorts in Hades. She was only a kitten, and I a lonesome chorus girl far from home. A sap, in other words. I took her to my bosom, and she instantly drew blood. Literally.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“I think many a trouble begins with love, and it’s important to remember that when life feels like the shit scraped off Death’s boot sole.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“Why do I sense that you’re entirely in earnest?” “Possibly because I’m half Italian. We’re the sort who either throw ourselves weeping upon your grave or help you into it.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“I’ve prayed about as often as I’ve avoided the underside of ladders, with similar results.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“Mornings are endless, a sea of broken clocks. Everyone I love is lost to me. I haven't a clue whether half of them are dead or alive and its maddening, not knowing if their names are being called from across a crowded nightclub or etched in unrelenting stone.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“If there are browner cabbage leaves than ones the Irish won’t touch, may God have mercy on those who eat them.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“Nun essiri duci sinno ti mancianu, nun essiri amarusinno ti futtinu,”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel

“I’m considerably too young and alluring to talk to cats.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Paragon Hotel