The Hotel Quotes

“But Miss Pym gave an impression, somehow, of having been attacked from within.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel

“He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel

“Sydney took no notice of what was being said; she did not seem as though she had heard. She stood between Tessa and Mrs. Kerr as inanimate and objective as a young girl in a story told by a man, incapable of a thought or a feeling that was not attributed to her, with no personality of her own outside their three projections upon her: Milton’s fiancée, Tessa’s young cousin, Mrs. Kerr’s protégée, lately her friend.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel