The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.

#qt2219948-b / read by Teja-84

Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want.

#qt2219948-a / read by Teja-84

Our guests know that their deepest secrets, some of which are frankly rather unseemly, will go with us to our graves.

#qt2219947-d / read by Teja-84

A lobby boy is, above all, discreet to a fault. So keep your mouth shut, Zero.

#qt2219947-c / read by Shriram-60

A lobby boy remembers what people hate. A lobby boy anticipates the client's needs before the needs are needed.

#qt2219947-b / read by Teja-84

What is a lobby boy? A lobby boy is completely invisible, yet always in sight.

#qt2219947-a / read by Teja-84

A great and noble house has been placed under your protection. Tell Zero if you see any funny business.

#qt2214523-f / read by Teja-84

Should I discover a lapse of any variety during my absence, I promise swift and merciless justice will descend upon you.

#qt2214523-e / read by Teja-84

Take extra-special care of every little bitty bit of it as if I were watching over you like a hawk with a horse-whip in its talons, because I am.

#qt2214523-d / read by Teja-84

Keep it spotless, and glorify it.

#qt2214523-c / read by Teja-84

Until I walk amongst you again as a free man, the Grand Budapest remains in your hands, as does its impeccable reputation.

#qt2214523-b / read by Teja-84

My dear and trusted colleagues ... I miss you deeply as I write from the confines of my regrettable and preposterous incarceration.

#qt2214523-a / read by Teja-84

The incidents that follow were described to me exactly as I present them here, and in a wholly unexpected way.

#qt2214519-g / read by Shuja-34

To him, who has often told the tales of others, many tales will be told.

#qt2214519-f / read by Teja-84

And as long as you maintain your ability to look, and to carefully listen, these stories will continue to...

#qt2214519-e / read by Pooja-61

Once the public knows you're a writer, they bring the characters and events to you.

#qt2214519-d / read by Shriram-60

In point of fact, the opposite is true.

#qt2214519-c / read by Shriram-60

People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes, that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air.

#qt2214519-b / read by Shuja-34

It is an extremely common mistake.

#qt2214519-a / read by Teja-84

Along with whatever we haven't already spent on whores and whiskey.

#qt2214518-c / read by Shriram-60

There's not much in the kitty, except a set of ivory-backed hairbrushes and my library of romantic poetry,

#qt2214518-b / read by Teja-84

If I die first, and I almost certainly will, you will be my sole heir.

#qt2214518-a / read by Shriram-60

Yet without question, without fail, always and invariably, she's exceedingly lovely.

#qt2194992-d / read by Shriram-60

.. while Mendl, genius though he is, looms over her like a hulking gorilla.

#qt2194992-c / read by Pooja-61

Flat as a board, enormous birthmark the shape of Mexico over half her face, sweating for hours on end in that sweltering kitchen ..

#qt2194992-b / read by Narmadha-83

I must say, I find that girl utterly delightful.

#qt2194992-a / read by Shriram-60

If I learn you ever once laid a finger on my mother's body, living or dead, I swear to God, I'll cut your throat! You hear me?

#qt2194990 / read by Shuja-34

But I will say, he certainly sustained the illusion with a marvelous grace.

#qt2149768-e / read by Shriram-60

To be frank, I think his world had vanished long before he ever entered it.

#qt2149768-d / read by Shriram-60

No, the hotel I keep for Agatha. We were happy here, for a little while.

#qt2149768-c / read by Shriram-60

No, I don't think so. You see, we shared a vocation, it wouldn't have been necessary.

#qt2149768-b / read by Shriram-60

Is it simply your last connection to that banished world - his world, if you will?

#qt2149768-a / read by Shriram-60

You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.

#qt2129210 / read by Narmadha-83

I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but... I want some.

#qt2128610-b / read by Pooja-61

You're looking so well, darling, you really are... they've done a marvelous job.

#qt2128610-a / read by Narmadha-83

Keep your hands off my lobby boy!

#qt2122967-a / read by Shriram-60

He's actually become a dear friend.

#qt2072901-e / read by Shriram-60

You've got to win their respect. You should take a long look at HIS ugly mug this morning.

#qt2072901-d / read by Shuja-34

.. you must never be a candy ass; you've got to prove yourself from day one.

#qt2072901-c / read by Shuja-34

Because, if there's one thing we've learned from penny dreadfuls, it's that when you find yourself in a place like this ..

#qt2072901-b / read by Shuja-34

What happened, my dear Zero, is I beat the living shit out of a sniveling little runt called Pinky Bandinski

#qt2072901-a / read by Narmadha-83