"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" Quotes

The only predilection I know for is books.

You know, the Dutch seem to be the only Europeans who never get homesick.

We are all pieces of a puzzle, pieces of a puzzle that must come together and fit perfectly in order for the picture to become clear.

We are all ignorant, only on different subjects.

The past is more than the sum of its misdeeds: it is a living entity, a being that can return, a force that has never left us.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.

The sound of his own voice was the only thing that could calm him.

We are, all of us, subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.