The Miniaturist Quotes

#1. Amid the chaos and confusion, one thing alone was certain: for the first time, a woman would sit upon the throne of England.

Helen Castor

#2. One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Frederick Buechner

#3. I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

Damian McGinty

#4. 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

#5. A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

George R R Martin

#6. Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

Thomas Perez

#7. Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer
a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

Gary Lutz

#8. I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.

John Rowland

#9. A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.

Orhan Pamuk