Jessie Burton Quotes

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

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

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.

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

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

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.