Jessie Burton quotes

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
-- Jessie Burton

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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“The bars on our cage are of our own making.”
-- Jessie Burton

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“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
-- Jessie Burton

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”
-- Jessie Burton

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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“But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?”
-- Jessie Burton

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.”
-- Jessie Burton

Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

#Water Quotes #Church Quotes #East Quotes

“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

“Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.”

“With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.”

“I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.”

“Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.”

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”

“Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.”

Source : Alec Wilkinson (2012). “The Ice Balloon”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

“Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.”