"Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all."
- Jessie Burton
"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 church's 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 every..."
"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. An..."
"In suffering we find our truest selves."