Caroline Woods > Quotes

“What if women could live that way forever, not married to men or serving their needs in other ways, but with one another, in peace, for all their years?”
― Caroline Woods, The Mesmerist: A Novel

“People could be so strange, especially when they thought their neighbors might Judge them. The more someone cared about being proper, the odder, and often crueler their behavior.”
― Caroline Woods, The Mesmerist

“The girl’s shoulders stopped trembling at “friend.” Amazing how the word, so common and ordinary among those who practiced plain speech, could lift the spirits unfamiliar with the custom.”
― Caroline Woods, The Mesmerist

“There is no Mesmerism. There is only convincing people it’s all right to do what they already wish.”
― Caroline Woods, The Mesmerist