Jennifer Lee Carrell > Quotes

“That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“But there were other great writers who had done all these things. What set Shakespeare apart...even from other greats, was his generosity: his invitation, even insistence,for others to join him in the act of imagining...His reticence [to add stage directions] made his works wonderfully elastic. It also made them demnding--sometimes maddeningly so--for directors and actors who had to figure out at every turn why these words and no others needed to be said right here and now. But Shakespeare was also demanding of his audiences: 'Yes,' you could almost hear him say, 'you are sitting in a fairly barren wooden theater. But dream yourselves to France. To a seacoast in Bohemia. To a magic-haunted island in a tempest-tossed sea. I dare you.' -Kate Stanley”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell

“If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“Right, then.” He pointed across to a bank of phones against the wall. “If you want to check your voice mail, now’s the time.”
“Where’s my phone?”
“Out of service.”
“It was fine in the car.”
“It’s not fine now.”
“What’d you do to it?”
“Put it out of our misery. I’m sorry, Kate. But every minute it’s on, you’re traceable to within the length of a football field, anywhere on the planet.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“Right,' said Ben. He leaned fowards, touching my (Kate) arm. 'You're sure you want to go on with this?'
'Are you trying to scare me?'
'You should be scared.'
'That doesn't mean I should stop.”
― J.L. Carrell

“If you believe in magic,' I (Kate) said.
'If it exists,' said Joanna, 'it doesn't matter a toss whether you believe in it or not.”
― J.L. Carrell, The Shakespeare Curse

“Her first rebellion was to write. Her second was to learn. And her third was to love.   She”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“Men are vile inconstant toads,”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“They repented their manifold sins and then fled out to buy amulets and astrological signs against the scourge.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“I cannot forbear admiring the very great sagacity of the men who first invented this method,” he said upon one return. “What makes you think it was men?” asked Lady Mary, raising an eyebrow. He stopped in his tracks and stared at her. “I—” “Men do not practice it. Why should they have invented it?” In answer, he turned on his heel and swept back out; he did not come back in for some time.   Disaster”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“It is notable that both people specifically scapegoated as the first to fall ill were black men.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There’s a small army of people right here in Boston who’ve undergone the operation in Africa—” “Africans!” snorted Dr. Douglass. “Idiots!”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“None of you has the least notion of what to do in the face of smallpox, save to scrape to yourselves tidy fortunes in fees for your ignorance.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell.”   In”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“I doubt if he himself leaks even enough to piss more than once a year on his birthday,”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, Interred with Their Bones

“I know not whether you can make me happy, she concluded to Wortley; you have convinced me you can make me miserable. That”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“How am I chang’d! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown!   For”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox