Tessa Harris > Quotes

“ so this is my collection of human body parts, Dr. Silkston," he said proudly, walking into the storeroom. "each organ is here fro a reason, a purpose. you see this one," he said, pointing to a cylinder containing what appeared to Thomas to be a section of a small intestine with a hole in it. "'Tis a duelist's jejunum. that is the bullet hole, right through the middle. and this, this is the Marquis of Rockingham's heart," he announced proudly. " he gave me a permission to have it a fore he died”
― Tessa Harris, The Dead Shall Not Rest

“Tis no matter. just as long as you are here now”
― Tessa Harris, The Dead Shall Not Rest

“I am a wicked woman"
"how could you do anything wicked? tell me what it is that so distress you”
― Tessa Harris, The Dead Shall Not Rest

“...there was nothing left of their shared past. It was like trying to retrace a footprint left behind on wet ground.”
― Tessa Harris , Beneath a Starless Sky

“ if I am to check for rats, I need to sweep under the bed, sir”
― Tessa Harris, The Dead Shall Not Rest

“Dance through the pain.”
― Tessa Harris, Beneath a Starless Sky

“they all listened intently and passed the story on in shades as varied as the turning leaves on the autumn beeches; on each occasion embellishing it with thin threads of conjecture that were strengthened every time they were entwined.”
― Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice

“Marchington”
― Tessa Harris, Beneath a Starless Sky

“If death, mused the great thinker Dr. Samuel Johnson, is merely a gateway on the path from life into eternity, a portal from mortality to immortality, then what does it matter how a man dies? The act of dying is not of importance. It is how he lives that counts.”
― Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice

“To hear is to learn. To listen is to care.”
― Tessa Harris, The Light We Left Behind

“Dilige amicos!”
― Tessa Harris, The Light We Left Behind

“gallimaufry”
― Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice

“It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
The act of dying is not of importance. It takes so short a time. —Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1769”
― Tessa Harris, The Anatomist's Apprentice