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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.

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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  1. Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us. – Jessie Burton
  2. The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim. – Jessie Burton
  3. Be wary of the man who does not offer water, charges too much for water, asks for too much water, and the one who makes water his business. – Suzy Kassem
  4. A piece of art only succeeds when it’s creator…possesses the belief that brings it into being – Jessie Burton
  5. You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still. – Jessie Burton
  6. 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
  7. The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. – Jessie Burton
  8. Because, Petronella – it’s something in his soul. It’s something in his soul and you can’t get it out. – Jessie Burton
  9. All we can do if we’re lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make. – Jessie Burton
  10. Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom. – 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. A Depressive?’ ‘Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.’ Olive tapped her temple. ‘And here.’ She touched her heart. – Jessie Burton
  20. Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth – Jessie Burton
  21. In suffering we find our truest selves. – Jessie Burton
  22. A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
  23. 1887A lifetime isn’t enough to know how a person will behave. – Jessie Burton
  24. In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time. – Jasleen Kaur Gumber
  25. I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I’d backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me. – John Welter
  26. In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild. – Shaun Hick
  27. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  28. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. – John Green
  29. Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. – John Green
  30. The ears and the heart are connected, it’s true,for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too. – Richelle E Goodrich
  31. The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear. – Criss Jami
  32. Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  33. Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. – Steven Magee
  34. Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That’s life – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  35. Water is water. Water is life sustenance. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  36. Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. – Euginia Herlihy
  37. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  38. Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I’ve woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It’s pointless, but it happens. – Gwendoline Riley
  39. he’s not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you’ll rot in hell. – Rod Serling
  40. In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn. – Laura Wiess

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