The Glass Hotel: A novel
A memory, but it’s a memory so vivid that there’s a feeling of time travel, of visiting the actual moment.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
There’s such happiness in a successful escape.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
There’s the idea of wilderness, and then there’s the unglamorous labor of it,
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
“I stepped through the looking glass into a strange new world
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
It turned out that never having that conversation with Vincent meant that he was somehow condemned to always have that conversation with Vincent.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
that’s what money gives you: the freedom to stop thinking about money. If you’ve never been without, then you won’t understand the profundity of this, how absolutely this changes your life.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
money is its own country.”
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
an encumbrance might also be thought of as an anchor, and what he’d found himself thinking lately was that he wouldn’t mind being more anchored to this earth.
Emily St. John Mandel • The Glass Hotel: A novel
None of these scenarios seemed less real than the life she’d landed in, so much so that she was struck sometimes by a truly unsettling sense that there were other versions of her life being lived without her, other Vincents engaged in different events.