Avalon Quotes

“It is such a relief to meet someone who can hear the word ‘magic’ without wanting to talk about J. K. Rowling.”
― Nell Zink, Avalon: A novel

“The hotel was unlike any building I had ever been inside before. It had a high polygonal atrium and planters everywhere. The architecture of everything but the doorways used oblique angles, as if it had been designed by an anthroposophist. All the vertical surfaces were exposed aggregate or dark wood, with touches of brass and smoked mirrors. There were dozens of overstuffed brown leather armchairs scattered across a tiered landscape of glistering taupe carpet. It was a place that had once been luxurious but had lost the race for the rich customers to modern glass and marble,”
― Nell Zink, Avalon: A novel

“they could not differentiate between having fun and creating the conditions for it.”
― Nell Zink, Avalon: A novel

“We would be trapped somewhere, barely moving, and she would tell me to pretend this moment was the only thing that had ever happened and would ever happen in my life and that it was eternal, and to ask myself whether life would still be worth living.”
― Nell Zink, Avalon: A novel