The Hotel Nantucket Quotes
"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
"Even the biggest disasters can be cleaned up."
"What do hammered-silver basins in the bathroom matter if the staff is harried and distracted when you check in?"
"We expect more. It’ll be a rigorous schedule."
"I’m not mad. And I’m also not going to marry you. You cheated on me."
"I need to get to work. Please leave and take back the ring."
"She has stopped fighting the old and started building the new!"
"I'm comfortable," Edie says. She brushes past Alessandra.
"My soon-to-be-ex-husband left me for my nanny."
"I’ll discuss your payment options with my GM, but for now, let’s get you settled in your suite."
"Would you and Doug wait outside for two seconds until I speak to Lizbet?"
"I'm going to call Lizbet again, and this time Lizbet answers."
"I upgraded her to suite one fourteen because it was empty."
"I wanted to do something. Get an honest job, make my own money to give to Paddy."
"Your situation is that your hotel stinks," Franny Yates said.
"I talk to everyone. My kids find it embarrassing."
"I'm divorced, my ex-wife has recently started dating again."
"I decided to treat myself to a summer at the beach."
"I'm a numbers guy. I was a math major at UConn back in the day."
"I'm just trying to get a viable situation in place."
"The Riviera gets old after a while," she said, making them both laugh.
"But if a hotel is providing an amenity such as a pen, it should work."
"Our lights all have individual switches, and the table and floor lamps have dimmers!"
"You probably think I’m a thief because I’m not rich like you."
"The sexting with Christina had started that summer. JJ had bulldozed the fortress. Worse, he’d allowed Lizbet to think that the fortress had existed only in her mind."
"The ending, rather than creating a stronger place that Lizbet could launch from into a new, different, better-quality life, was an obliteration."
"She couldn’t salvage anything from them except the knowledge that she had, technically, survived."
""Have you ever had your heart broken?" Mario sighs. "Not like that. Not by a woman, romantically. But when Fiona died…"
""…and when the Blue Bistro closed, my heart broke. It’s going to sound pompous as hell, but it was the dismantling of a dynasty."
"The dream died with Fiona, a piece of all of us died with Fiona. So yes, I’ve had my heart broken by this island."
"Mario puts his hands on either side of Lizbet’s face. "I’m going to kiss you now, but I think we should both be careful.""
"Lizbet laughs. "I’m never falling in love again, don’t worry.""
""Why do we have to be careful, again?" she says. He laughs. "I was just wondering that myself.""
""The hotel is going to make it." She realizes she has no idea if this is true."
""It’s a desk thing. You wouldn’t understand.""
""I think he does that to make you jealous," Alessandra says, and she believes this."
""I’m probably not the person you think I am either," she says. "But it doesn’t matter. It’s summertime and we’re on an island thirty miles out to sea."
""We love you, sweetie," Mr. Plumb says. "Thank you for trusting us enough to tell us," Mrs. Plumb says."
""You don’t know that. Why did you ask if I was seeing other people?" Mario’s eyes jump up to meet hers."
""I can’t just put it behind me, Dad," Chad says. He seeks out Paul’s eyes."
"She’s dazzled. "Why do we have to be careful, again?" she says."
""Please give them my best," Alessandra says."
"I’m not sure what to do. Should she tell Heidi what Alessandra said about meeting a "friend" on the Hy-Line back in April and staying with him on Hulbert Avenue?"
"I thought maybe you did it because you needed the money."
"I’m serious, Libby. Everything sucks. The place has no soul."
"We both love a good comeback story, right, and I want to be the best comeback of all."
"Then he needed to make them thirty days ago."
"I’ve developed a nice rapport with the reservations people at Cru."
"I know you’re anxious because you’ve lost a restaurant on this island before, but Xavier is going to love us."
"Hotels aren’t about rooms. They aren’t about amenities. They’re about people."
"I refuse to stop, because the best is yet to come!"
"I’m officially over my word limit—but I refuse to stop."
"During my stay I heard tales of flickering lights, music blaring out of nowhere."
"It’s my unshakable opinion that Grace Hadley makes most of the hotel’s guests feel safe—and yes, even loved."
"Some of you might be wondering if I’m going to address the elephant in the room."
"I don’t believe in ghosts—or I didn’t before my stay at the Hotel Nantucket."
"The best part of the Hotel Nantucket was the staff."
"The Blue Bar offered an experience unlike any other on Nantucket."
"All meals end with a visit from the whipped cream concierge."
"A copper disco ball dropped at nine o’clock and the music switched to ’80s dance hits."
"Friends, I am officially over my word limit—but I refuse to stop, because the best is yet to come!"