Floating Hotel Quotes

“the rule with public fights was the same as the rule with potholes: walk around them and hope they get fixed before someone hurts themselves.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“Ephraim knew that people were not as solid as they liked to pretend. Mostly, people were liquid; great bags of pulsating liquid held together by a perilously thin membrane of skin, electrified with just enough thoughts to provide the illusion of sentience.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“populated by displaced people whose brief lives were made bearable with substances that shortened them.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“The luxury was an intrusion into dull reality;”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“Half a dozen paces from the door, fumbling in her apron for the right key, Daphne’s shoulder collided with someone passing the other way. ‘Watch it!’ They snapped. Daphne, spun around by the impact, jogged backwards and tried to stammer out an apology. ‘That hurt, damn it.’ Rogan rubbed her shoulder sulkily. ‘Why are your bones so sharp?’ ‘M– m– milk?”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“And it’s not like any of this matters. It’s just a bunch of goddamn brown-nosers blowing smoke up each other’s arses. Same as every year. That’s the only problem we have to solve. Too much smoke in the anal tract.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“Things, never good, were getting steadily worse.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“Fretting about death is an aristocrat’s pastime, she thought. The rest of us are too busy trying to live.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel

“Without hectic parties, groundside activities or spectacular views, the guests were forced to slow down. Read a little. Talk. Swim. Stroll the greenhouse. The pressure to relax fell off their shoulders and they could finally, well, relax.”
― Grace Curtis, Floating Hotel