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

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

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  1. Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom. – Jessie Burton
  2. Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us. – Jessie Burton
  3. New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. – Anne Rice
  4. You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still. – Jessie Burton
  5. Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant. – Don DeLillo
  6. A piece of art only succeeds when it’s creator…possesses the belief that brings it into being – Jessie Burton
  7. The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. – Jessie Burton
  8. The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim. – Jessie Burton
  9. Because, Petronella – it’s something in his soul. It’s something in his soul and you can’t get it out. – Jessie Burton
  10. All we can do if we’re lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make. – Jessie Burton
  11. Believe it or don’t believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man’s. – Jessie Burton
  12. We’re nothing more than prisoners to your desire. – Jessie Burton
  13. The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn’t married. – Jessie Burton
  14. There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see. – Jessie Burton
  15. What was once, is no longer. – Jessie Burton
  16. Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all. – Jessie Burton
  17. From little seeds great flowers grow. – Jessie Burton
  18. I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old. – Jessie Burton
  19. But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church’s east corner is crowded. – Jessie Burton
  20. A Depressive?’ ‘Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.’ Olive tapped her temple. ‘And here.’ She touched her heart. – Jessie Burton
  21. Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth – Jessie Burton
  22. In suffering we find our truest selves. – Jessie Burton
  23. A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
  24. 1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
  25. Bloated software causes IT stress farts. – Kevin Focke
  26. Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it’s done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent’s smile. M.Sullivan – Mike Sullivan
  27. There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and Ä°stanbul is such a city! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. The home is always a home and a noble place for shaping hearts! A good home is good for life! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  29. Home isn’t a place. It’s not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you. – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  30. Who you are and what you believe in is your real home, the only home no one can take from you, the only home that will last. – Adam Bagdasarian
  31. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. – Hermann Hesse
  32. A city which belongs to just one man is no true city – Sophocles
  33. History is finite-there’s only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights) – Kat Georges
  34. Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? – Ahmad Ardalan
  35. New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls. – Kurt Wenzel
  36. Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had. – Bill Bryson
  37. The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores – like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city’s skin. – Markus Zusak
  38. … the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. – Augustine of Hippo
  39. Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel… City of Night? – Jim Morrison
  40. I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay – Jeet Thayil

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