Audrey Blake > Quotes

“A marriage license is not a medical license, Dr. Croft. I am still hopeful I may obtain both.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“She felt herself suspended inside a storm cloud, the electric charges crackling dangerously around her and her only retreat a fatal fall.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He put down his scalpel and let her see the hurt in his eyes. She did not know if he could see hers.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“You cannot heal the human body until you acknowledge its purpose to house the soul.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Don’t ever stop. There aren’t enough impossible women.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“You are impossible,” Magdalena said and sniffed. A patch of damp grew on Nora’s right shoulder. “Don’t ever stop. There aren’t enough impossible women.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Gathering the strands of her fraying temper,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He had bits of some of them, floating in jars, and he wrote up their cases to print in his books. In a tattered edition of the Lancet, Nora discovered her own story with Dr. Croft’s prediction that having recovered from cholera, she’d gained immunity to the disease, and realized that she, too, was a specimen.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“That is the great benefit of being a man, with every opportunity in the world before you. You cannot understand.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“surgery was the vanguard of scientific discovery, a challenge, a test of his mettle, a set of skills that saved lives. Mother had softened at the idea of fame and success, but this contretemps over his arrival made Daniel doubt the wisdom of his choice. Surgery? Why indeed.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“To stand at the gate of life and death is a calling, not a profession. If you accept the call, you will live where joy meets misery and ecstasy meets torment. You will walk between suffering and relief. You will grant life and destroy it.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“English doctors teach their patients how to live at any cost. We must also teach them how to die in peace. It is the most important part of our work.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“You may cage the pain, postpone it, let it settle in the joints as arthritis or fill the arteries of the heart, but the moment of attack will come. The pain will be felt in its full power, no matter how long you have kept it at bay.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Perra’s hand caught her arm gently. “No. I will do all I can to spare them. But if they pass, I will not beat my breast. I will pray for them and commend them into another Healer’s hands.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Never give up your post at the crossroads of life and death. People will say you do not belong there because you are a woman. But look to the Sacred Mother. She screamed in agony to bring God into the world and screamed in agony when he was torn from it. She kept her post. Will you do the same, Eleanora? Or will you let someone or something drive you from your place of life and death?”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“If you quit now, Eleanora, you will waste their deaths. What you learned will be for nothing. You will leave others to repeat your mistakes. And they will.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Of course he couldn’t speak for Mae, but he thought—hoped—they’d each be happier with futures they’d chosen rather than the ones they’d learned to expect.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Women, as the morally superior gender, were made for “sweet ordering,” for instilling Christian principles in children and comforting weary men after the trials of the day.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“women were not admitted to Pall Mall clubs,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He was pondering how Dr. Croft kept curious onlookers from beholding gory surgeries in a glass atrium.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“Nothing comes close to it in importance, magnitude, or power. I believe it is a calling. A difficult, sometimes miserable one, but a miraculous one as well.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“God came through a woman’s body. It is time a womb was given the respect it deserves.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“troglodytes,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“She screamed in agony to bring God into the world and screamed in agony when he was torn from it. She kept her post.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Right at this moment, I’m rereading The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, which I love, and listening to Ben Philippe’s Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend. I just finished the The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and can’t wait for the sequel, which releases next month. And at the end of this month, Helen Hoang’s next book, The Heart Principle, comes out, and I’ve been looking forward to that one, too. I’m also midway through Why They Marched by Susan Ware, and next I’m diving into Rebel Girls: How Votes for Women Changed Edwardian Lives by Jill Liddington. R:”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“returned”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow