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The Guest Room QUOTES

The Guest Room QUOTES

1 " ...this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

2 " She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

3 " She cringed when she saw she needed a bikini wax - and cringed that she even got them in the first place. It wasn't the pain. It was the whole idea she was raising her daughter in a world where pubic hair was a problem. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

4 " A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee, "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

5 " up now "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

6 " She had read articles over the years about a man's supposed biological craving for young women: it was all about primeval procreation, in theory, the need to plant seed in fertile soil. Maybe. ... She thought of a line from Nabokov: "Because you took advantage of my disadvantage." Lolita. In this case, however, Kristin felt that she was at the disadvantage - not the young thing. The truth was, she feared, all men were Humbert Humbert. Maybe they weren't pedophiles lusting after twelve-year-olds, but didn't Lolita look old for her age? Older, anyway? Sure, there were MILFs in porn, but Kristin had a feeling that considerably more men wanted their porn stars to be students at Duke University than moms from the bleachers at a middle-school soccer game. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

7 " gentlemen’s clubs—now there was a ridiculous euphemism "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

8 " months earlier with Kristin, "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

9 " vernissage "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

10 " cerulean. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

11 " crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

12 " Some are just businessmen. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

13 " ontological "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

14 " But if you are a person who needs no one’s approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere. "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room

15 " If you were Bill Clinton, how did you justify Monica Lewinsky to Chelsea? What did you say about the cigar and the beret and the little blue dress? If you were Anthony Weiner, how in the world did you explain to your daughter your apparently insatiable need to text pictures of your junk to strange women? "

― Chris Bohjalian , The Guest Room