The Miniaturist Quotes

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“You are sunlight through a window, which I stand in, warmed. My darling.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“For what am I, she wonders, but a product of my own imagination?”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“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.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“My brother knows the danger of having nothing to do.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Here she is a puppet, a vessel for others to pour their speech. And it is not a man she has married, but a world.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Growing older, does not seem to make you more certain. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“But the words she chooses withhold their best qualities, they refuse to match the way she feels inside.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“EVERY WOMAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HER OWN FORTUNE”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“She has always thought that kindness was an active thing. But the not doing of something, an act of restraint -- could that be kindness too?”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“The more they try to look holy the less I am convinced,”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“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.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

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

“From little seeds great flowers grow.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“The more people who take part in a ritual, the more justified it seems.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“sometimes it’s hard to love a person you know too well.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“She never married,' Pellicorne says. 'A waste.' For some of us, Nella thinks, it's a waste to be married.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist