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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet QUOTES

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet QUOTES

1 " He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

2 " Hope can get you through anything. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

3 " As you play this record, I hope you'll think of the good, not the bad. Of what was, not what wasn't meant to be. Of the time we spent together, not the time we've spent apart. Most of all I hop you'll think of me... "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

4 " The last time someone had laid out a suit and a pair of dress shoes with a ticket purchased for a faraway place, Henry had refused to go.

This time, Henry refused to stay. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

5 " You don't have to, Henry. In here, I think my dream is big enough for the both of us. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

6 " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

7 " The waitress brought a fresh pot of tea, and Marty refilled his father’s cup and poured a cup for Samantha. Henry in turn filled Marty’s. It was a tradition Henry cherished—never filling your own cup, always filling that of someone else, who would return the favor. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

8 " Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

9 " I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

10 " The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

11 " I am what you made me, Father. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

12 " Loyalty. We're still loyal to the United States of America. Why? Because we too are Americans. We don't agree, but we will show our loyalty by our obedience. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

13 " A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon.

The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

14 " Everything, it seemed-the city, the sky-was brighter and more vivid than before. So modern, compared with the time capsule downstairs. As he left the hotel, Henry looked west to where the sun was setting, burnt sienna flooding the horizon. It reminded him that time was short, but the beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

15 " I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

16 " Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

17 " But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

18 " I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

19 " It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

20 " Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in. "

― Jamie Ford , Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet