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“Then where is home, Johannes?" He looks at the maps on his wall. "I don't know," He says. "Where comfort is. And that is hard to find.”
Jessie Burton“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught,’ she says. He raises his eyebrows. ‘That does not surprise me. It is not better. But it is easier. One’s imagination is always more generous. And yet, the chase always tires you out in the end.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist“I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.”
Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist