“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
“Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught.”
“Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.”
“The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.”
“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.”
“My brother knows the danger of having nothing to do.”
“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”
“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.”
“For what am I, she wonders, but a product of my own imagination?”
“Growing older, does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”
“You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.”
“EVERY WOMAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HER OWN FORTUNE”
“Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
“But the words she chooses withhold their best qualities, they refuse to match the way she feels inside.”
“Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth”
“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.”
“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.”
“The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.”
“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
“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?”
“In suffering do we find our truest selves,” she says.”
“Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses.”
“The air is hot, the atmosphere a bruise.”
“How do I begin to love you?—the”
“Welcome to Aureus, land of illegal freaks. Have some torture and tea while you're here.”
“Jon, Julie, and the others in the elite course, who had been devastated to miss Falling Out of Trees with Jace Herondale 101, all stared over as if ready to leap up and save Jace from the bad company he’d fallen into, carry him away in a litter made of chocolate and roses, and bear his children.”
“Asil has appointed himself my guardian?" asked Charles softly. Asil was overstepping himself.
"He was bored, he told me," said his father. He gave Charles a small smile. "I have given him a job so he doesn’t get bored again.”
“Shrouded in his red cassock, he padded off to the bathroom lost in the silent ecstasy or wearing new socks.”
“For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.”
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