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21 " Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth "
― Jessie Burton , The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)
22 " 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. "
23 " In suffering we find our truest selves. "
24 " A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave. "
25 " Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt. "
26 " Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy. "
27 " Like Tracy Chevalier, Burton is skilled at evoking place . . . Wonderful’ Guardian "
28 " Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes—but sloth will slide us back into the sea. And these days, the rising waters feel so near. "
29 " She never married,' Pellicorne says. 'A waste.' For some of us, Nella thinks, it's a waste to be married. "
30 " Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught. "
31 " Every woman is the architect of her own fortune. "
32 " Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt. "
33 " Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away. "
34 " Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.Thus is he always, forever a boy. "
35 " You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling. "
36 " Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder. "
37 " The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit. "
38 " For what am I, she wonders, but a product of my own imagination? "
39 " My brother knows the danger of having nothing to do. "
40 " Here she is a puppet, a vessel for others to pour their speech. And it is not a man she has married, but a world. "