But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded. - Jessie Burton
1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave. - Jessie Burton
The pastor looks at the money. It is money coming from the wife of a sodomite. It is money coming from a woman. It is the deep-lying root of evil. But it is a lot of money. - Jessie Burton
When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is everything. - Jessie Burton