“The human heart, no matter what age, will only open to the heart that opens in return.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the former things.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“Yes, sometimes we must lose something...someone...before we realize its worth.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH, 19T" CENTURY NOVELIST”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“The apothecary of this country is qualified by education to attend at the bedside of the sick, and, being in general better acquainted with pharmacy than the physicians of English universities ... is often the most successful practitioner.
JEREMIAH JENKINS, OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE PROFESSION AND TRADE OF MEDICINE, 1810
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― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“You may be small in the attic, but you have a big heart.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“My father was a North Somerset fisherman. He always said if the apostles needed the Lord to tell them where to cast their nets, then he could do no better than to ask the Almighty for direction as well.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Apothecary's Daughter
“Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.”
― Susan Cooper, quote from Over Sea, Under Stone
“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council wants them to say, too, if they like his face.”
― Richard Hughes, quote from A High Wind in Jamaica
“Dr Grantly is by no means a bad man; he is exactly the man which such an education as his was most likely to form; his intellect being sufficient for such a place in the world, but not sufficient to put him in advance of it.”
― Anthony Trollope, quote from The Warden
“It’s not that I enjoy surprising everyone I know; it’s more that I almost never know where I’m going before I actually get there.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from An Artificial Night
“Той харесва това, което прави. Използването на острие е нещо лично. То е гневна постъпка, но също така е акт на удоволствие. Като да убиеш любовница. Единственото по-интимно е да убиваш с голи ръце. С острие убиваш непознатата, която обичаш. Това е знак на уважение, благодарност за смъртта, с която те дарява. - Обгръщам кървавата стая с жест. - Пускането на кръв може да бъде интимно или лично. Кръвта е живот. Режеш непознатата, която обичаш, за да си близо до кръвта, когато започне да тече. Кръвта също така е пътека към смъртта. Източваме кръвта на прасетата по сравнително същия начин. Въпросът е как ги приема той? Като прасета или любовници? Дали са нищо за него, или са всичко?”
― Cody McFadyen, quote from The Face of Death
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