Renee

“He didn’t insist on a detailed explanation. One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“I wanted to be in a room of people whose liberation had taken them through that hell and who knew what it cost to be free and for whom that cost was not a choice or an option. I wanted to be with people who could not be alive unless they were free, not people who could be fine with a convenient amount of liberation because the world still generally worked for them no matter how many fucked-up systems were in place for everyone else.”
― Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love: A Memoir

“In her hotel days, Vincent had always associated money with privacy—the wealthiest hotel guests have the most space around them, suites instead of rooms, private terraces, access to executive lounges—but in actuality, the deeper you go into the kingdom of money, the more crowded it gets, people around you in your home all the time,”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“She'd set out before dawn with the sense of embarking on a mission, but after the verdict came down, she almost wished she'd stayed home. She couldn't have hoped for a longer sentence, and yet there was a curious sense of anti-climax.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel