Quotes by Jessie Burton

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.

I felt nothing change in the room, except the shock of my voice alone and the peculiar euphoria one feels in the wake of applause, feeling at once cheapened and triumphant.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the churchs east corner is crowded.

A Depressive? Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head. Olive tapped her temple. And here. She touched her heart.

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 everything.

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. One’s imagination is always more generous. And yet, the chase always tires you out in the end.

In suffering we find our truest selves.

A lifetime isnt enough to know how a person will behave.

1887A lifetime isnt enough to know how a person will behave.

Then where is home, Johannes? He looks at the maps on his wall. I dont 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 ones parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadnt lived it yet.

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

Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person youre putting faith in is yourself.

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