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Quotes About Inn

She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture.
~ Louise Penny
And would not her fastidious litheness take away the heavy taste of the fleshy girls in the Citrus Inn? McGee, the Perfidious.
~ John D. MacDonald
When they weren't praying, they did what schoolgirls everywhere do. They laughed, they shrieked, they burst into hysterical sobs – all for no apparent reason… The schoolgirls also played the worst Western music imaginable, and they took a surfeit of baths – so many baths that the traditional inn where Wallingford and Evelyn Arbuthnot stayed was repeatedly running out of hot water.
~ John Irving
Think you've got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up." "Maybe that's it," said Adam. "But I never took much satisfaction in a whore." "It's all the same," Charles said. "You shut your eyes and you can't tell the difference.
~ John Steinbeck
hoping that the rest of the staff lived up to the Inn's reputation of "gracious and accommodating" better than the bellhop. When was the last time she'd had a bellhop comment on the weight of her luggage?
~ Unknown
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint."Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."Inns are not residences.
~ Marianne Moore
It didn't have to be a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich soapy bath, a nights rest at an inn and a full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.
~ Mary E. Pearson
To this end pitiful woodwork had been used instead of solid masonry; rickety ceilings had been propped up by fragile rafters, and beams that threatened on every stormy night to fall upon the heads of those beneath them; doors whose specialty was never to be shut, yet always to be banging; windows constructed with a peculiar view to letting in the draft when they were shut, and keeping out the air when they were open. The hand of genius had devised this lonely country inn;
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I come weary, In search of an inn— Ah! These wisteria flowers!
~ Matsuo Basho
Near a large inn, the 'Roter Krug,' stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.
~ Max Hastings
Through the gates of the inn in the provincial town of N drove a rather handsome, smallish spring britzka, of the sort driven around in by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, landowners possessed of some hundred peasant souls—in short, all those known as gentlemen of the middling sort.
~ Nikolai Gogol
The inn looks quite luxurious, but their host explains that as the plague has racked up victims, people have grown more and more afraid to leave their homes, terrified to purchase things from those who have been stricken.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Is this..." Chronicler hesitated, looking around. "Are we in Newarre?" Kote nodded. "You are, in fact, in the middle of Newarre.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
IT WAS NIGHT AGAIN. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I turned to see a young woman standing in the doorway. Young, pretty, unassuming, the sort of girl that always worked at little inns like this: a Nellie. Nell. The sort of girl who spent her life in a perpetual flinch because the innkeeper had a temper and a sharp tongue and wasn't afraid to show her the back of his hand.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Amanecía. En la posada Roca de Guía reinaba el silencio, un silencio triple.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
They smelled of road dust and horses. He breathed it in like perfume. Best of all was the noise. Leather creaking. Men laughing. The fire cracked and spat. The women flirted. Someone even knocked over a chair. For the first time in a long while there was no silence in the Waystone Inn. Or if there was, it was too faint to be noticed, or too well hidden. Kote
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Never pass a bar with your name on it
~ Pete McCarthy
And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
~ Luke 2:7