Hokey Pokey Quotes

“I’ve never wanted to be compliant,” Nora said. She bad always wanted to be true, instead; though she had failed at that.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

“If that memory were false, she didn’t know how the trust the rest.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

“Patient MCCLX suffered a cold, u caring mother, and as a result had an extremely fragile sense of self. The patient frequently questioned whether she had any real self at all; she compared herself to machines like phonographs or Dictaphones; she doubted she was human. During adolescence this disturbance of the self had progressed to full-blown delusion. The patient fantasised she was a supernatural entity who enjoys human flesh and assumes the identity of its prey; she had intermittently adopted the mannerisms and speech of her mother’s supposed victim. The attraction of this fantasy was that the patient could split off her true, fragile self and disavow it.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

“Quarrington recognised this feeling from heavy snowfalls in prior years. He theorists that hotels should be for pleasure, or business, but never an emergency in a storm. As soon as people were confined to them, things went wrong. So many people in proximity, none of whom belonged there, and who had been deprived of their exit, were bound to start acting strangely. Because of this, no building, cut off, could rival a hotel for claustrophobia.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

“Hotel housekeeping soured you on people’s nature. And guests did worse than scratch at the furniture. This had been a source of pessimism for Frye before her engagement: she anticipated never marrying, because men liked an ignorant bride, and hotel women saw too much to be truly ignorant. The work made you worldly. When you looked at old housekeepers you could see in the lines of their face and the wariness of their posture that they were jaded. They were up at all hours, at dawn, at noon, at two in the morning; they inhaled, drank, and ate the hotel.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

“Merlini Sat up in bed with the cautiousness of someone who has read too many cheap ghost stories, trying not to catch the attention of shadows.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey