Quote by Claire Messud Download Open image ““there’s a period of accommodation before you are formally and”” — Claire Messud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you.” — Bianca Bosker Copy Share Image
“The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“It’s relaxing, I thought, I was wrong not to come sooner. I had a friend of my age with her own house, full of… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“All I know is that the hours are long... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Life is funny like that; just about the time you’re able to fully appreciate the accommodations, you’re checking out of the hotel.” — Nate Kenyon Copy Share Image
“But it is in the rooms, not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals. The hall is a place to wait… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.” — Elizabeth Rudnick Copy Share Image
“I like to live spaciously, but rather plainly, in large halls with great spaces and quiet libraries. I like to wake in the morning… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Life is about deciding what matters. It’s about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead;… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled-… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
