Quotes from The Miniaturist

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from 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, quote from The Miniaturist

“My brother knows the danger of having nothing to do.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“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.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“For what am I, she wonders, but a product of my own imagination?”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Growing older, does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“EVERY WOMAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HER OWN FORTUNE”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“But the words she chooses withhold their best qualities, they refuse to match the way she feels inside.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“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.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“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, quote from The Miniaturist

“The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“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?”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“In suffering do we find our truest selves,” she says.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“The air is hot, the atmosphere a bruise.”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

“How do I begin to love you?—the”
― Jessie Burton, quote from The Miniaturist

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