Jessie Burton

The Muse

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  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    Somewhere inside her memory, a drawbridge had been lowered, and the foot soldiers of her past were pushing through.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    I always find that the time before a party is happiest,’ Olive said. ‘Nothing’s had the chance to go wrong.’
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one’s parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn’t lived it yet.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    She’d always thought of gold leaf as an alchemist’s dream, a contained ray of sun.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    I first started writing as a little girl because I liked imagining parallel possibilities. That was all it was.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    A church bell rang in the distance, a sombre line of twelve dongs to hold the time before it slipped away once more.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    In London, there were many different ways to live, but few to change the life you had.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    She had that cheery unselfconsciousness that always makes a person beautiful, however unremarkable their face.
  • Lukutoukkahas quoted6 years ago
    ‘Why are we so trapped by the hours, the minutes of every day? Why can’t we live the life that’s always out of reach?’
  • Xiomara Canizaleshas quoted7 years ago
    You can do more with rumour than you can with fact
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