The Miniaturist
A source page for quotes linked to Jessie Burton.
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Source: The Restless Girls
Source: The Restless Girls
“Sometimes a feeling can be as true as fact.”
Source: The Restless Girls
Source: The Muse
“Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
Source: The Miniaturist
Source: The Miniaturist
“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
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“1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
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“I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
Source: The Miniaturist
“The girls weren't alone in this: the world is full of children picking up their parents' crumbs.”
Source: The Restless Girls
“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”
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Source: The Miniaturist
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“The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.”
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“You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.”
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“From little seeds great flowers grow.”
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“The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.”
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“Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.”
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“I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.”
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“Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.”
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“What was once, is no longer.”
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“There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.”
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“We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.”
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Source: The Miniaturist
“All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.”
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Source: The Miniaturist
“Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.”
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“She had told me that the approval of other people should never be my goal”
Source: The Muse
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“They knew now that the dark was simply the beginning of new things. The dark was necessary.”
Source: The Restless Girls
Source: The Miniaturist
“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”
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“But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?”
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“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
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“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
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