We’re nothing more than prisoners to your desire.
– Jessie Burton
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- People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. – Franklin D Roosevelt
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- A piece of art only succeeds when it’s creator…possesses the belief that brings it into being – Jessie Burton
- You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still. – Jessie Burton
- 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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- Because, Petronella – it’s something in his soul. It’s something in his soul and you can’t get it out. – Jessie Burton
- All we can do if we’re lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make. – Jessie Burton
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- Believe it or don’t believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man’s. – Jessie Burton
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- There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see. – Jessie Burton
- What was once, is no longer. – Jessie Burton
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- But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church’s east corner is crowded. – Jessie Burton
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- In suffering we find our truest selves. – Jessie Burton
- A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
- 1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
- What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire. – Stanley Kunitz
- There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free. – R A Delmonico
- The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. – RADelmonico
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- Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. – Neel Burton
- There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it – Jessie Douglas Kerruish
- Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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- They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. – Michael Crichton
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