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41 " Growing older, does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt. "
― Jessie Burton , The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)
42 " She has always thought that kindness was an active thing. But the not doing of something, an act of restraint -- could that be kindness too? "
43 " EVERY WOMAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HER OWN FORTUNE "
44 " But the words she chooses withhold their best qualities, they refuse to match the way she feels inside. "
45 " Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught. "
46 " 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. "
47 " The more they try to look holy the less I am convinced, "
48 " sometimes it’s hard to love a person you know too well. "
49 " The more people who take part in a ritual, the more justified it seems. "
50 " You have to keep your wealth afloat and no one will do it for you. It'll run through your fingers if you don't care. "
51 " I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy. "
52 " This is not a conversation, it is Agnes sending out darts and watching them pierce. "
53 " Doubt now riots against certainty— "
54 " it is a prison. And its bars are made of murderous hypocrisy "
55 " Stvari se mogu promijeniti. "
56 " Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses. "
57 " The air is hot, the atmosphere a bruise. "
58 " Kогато започнеш да виждаш отвъдмилите жестове, усмивките, когато видиш гнева и жалкия страх, който всеки от нас таи в себе си – тогава единственото, което ти остава, е да се научиш да прощаваш. Всички отчаяно се нуждаем от прошка. "
59 " How do I begin to love you?—the "
60 " Above their rooftops Nature is doing her best to keep up, and the clouds in colors of saffron and apricot echo the spoils of the glorious republic. Nella "