Hotel Magnifique Quotes
"Simple—except, usually, she delivered packages during the day, not little boys in the dead of night."
"Most of all she wondered who might receive this boy, considering the delivery location was not a home."
"She was too old to believe in stories, and yet she quickened her pace."
"No one could light a candle from nothing. Unless—"
"Happy birthday," I shouted when her song ended."
"Here, birthdays weren’t dusted with confectioners’ sugar; they were hard-won and more dear than gold."
"The thought felt like a bright coal smoldering in my chest."
"Magic was so dangerous that for centuries in Verdanne, children suspected to be suminaires were either drowned or burned to death."
"Nobody knew how he’d done it, but everybody wanted a chance to see it firsthand."
"I don’t want to be left alone," I admitted with a wince."
"When the Durc clock chimed eleven, my stomach rumbled; it had been hours since I’d eaten."
"It’s all to impress the guests, but that doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate it as well."
"The city clock chimed the half hour. Eleven thirty."
"In the coming days, you can find her. Catch up. For now, I need you to go to your room."
"I wasn’t aging. I was decomposing like a spoiled fish on the summer docks."
"The thought of losing her in a crowd always put me on edge."
"That night, I didn’t dream of magic but simpler times in Aligney."
"This place wouldn’t fit inside that old alley, nor a space fifty times that size."
"Nothing is random. Rooms appear when they’re needed."
"But once you’ve seen one destination, you’ve seen them all."
"If you follow them, you will earn the privilege for trips outside."
"It’s the only place in the world where magic is safe."
"You’ve worked in the kitchens for five weeks. Can’t you tell when a pot’s boiling over?"
"No one is safe in their job. All the workers are replaceable, even the suminaires."
"I can’t change her back without Des Rêves’s artéfact, let alone release her from her contract."
"The windows converse and show the guests the best view."
"Alastair’s ink does exactly what he writes without fail."
"Once a new staff member steps inside the hotel, they will forget everything they leave behind."
"I don’t believe many people. I wouldn’t take it personally."
"No one is looking for you. No one is looking for me."
"Outside of the hotel, we’re not even a memory. We don’t exist."
"We’ll have to wait until the tour leaves regardless, so I’m getting comfortable."
"You might feel lonely, but I promise you’re not alone."
"The maître will have my head if anything happens to Issig."
"I’m not nothing to you. That’s precisely the problem."
"Congratulations. Alastair voided your contract. You get to go home."
"Home doesn’t mean anything to me without the people I love."
"But the pain focused my mind. It kept me awake and carried my feet faster."
"Women hunched against storefronts hawking false magic."
"The word Amour was stamped in peeling silver foil."
"Rusted hinges screeched as I pushed through the door."
"A wooden toy in my palm, similar to the souvenirs on display."
"The society saved my life, as they did for many children."
"She was too busy drawing maps to pay attention to him."
"I’ve never seen you with your hair down. It’s nice."
"I thought I’d never get to argue with you again."
"The contracts were destroyed. All the workers had their memories back."
"Do you think that doorman could make me something like his wooden finger?"
"I want to make it a home for anyone who wishes to stay."
"What’s going on inside that thick skull of yours?"
"Nothing like Alastair’s ink. But you wouldn’t believe all the astonishing things some of the artéfacts can do."
"This place is my home as much as Aligney or Durc ever was."
"I had thought you wanted to take Zosa to Aligney."
"Right now, this place is my home as much as Aligney or Durc ever was."
"This book has been on a journey almost as magnificent as the hotel within its pages."