Quotes by Jessie Burton

“There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.”

“What was once, is no longer.”

“The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.”

“Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.”

“From little seeds great flowers grow.”

“I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.”

“When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is ev...”

“Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth”

“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. Ones imagination is always more generous. An...”

“In suffering we find our truest selves.”

“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”

“1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”

“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.”

“She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because...”

“Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself.”

“Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.”

“I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I’ll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I’m being selfis...”

“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....”