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The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2) QUOTES

The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2) QUOTES

1 " I am no saint, and he is no monster for me to slay. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

2 " She couldn’t understand why some girls seemed to relish drawing their attention. One might as well call out to a wolf, and offer it one’s throat. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

3 " nothing more taxing than a novel to read, something frivolous and French. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

4 " They have so many boxes that they must number them to keep track. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

5 " It reassured the girls that cooking was a skill, to be learned like any other—not some secret art that could only be gleaned in a loving home, at a mother’s side. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

6 " it struck him as the sort of thing that adults liked to say when what they meant was I was terrified, so I ran for it. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

7 " like a hack-saw in a bakery case. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

8 " It made little sense, and yet it was the truth. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

9 " He'd given her his silences, and she'd filled them with her fears. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

10 " But his anger seemed out of reach now, somewhere beyond his sadness. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

11 " You, too, would be free, if it were not for the work of men's hands. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)

12 " Of all the myriad races of thinking creatures in the world, the two that most delight in telling stories are the flesh-and-blood humans and the long-lived, fiery jinn. "

― Helene Wecker , The Hidden Palace (The Golem and the Jinni, #2)