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“Someone should tell you that you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eighth of August, just because.”
― Anatomy: A Love Story
― Anatomy: A Love Story
“Next, she pushed aside the sheet of paper and lifted the book. She asked if I understood any of the words, and I shook my head. She then pointed at several of the shorter words -- she, cart, plum -- and explained how each letter made its own sound, and how words strung together on paper could convey an idea, a story.
Like magick, I thought. It was everywhere, if only one knew to look.”
― The Lost Apothecary
Like magick, I thought. It was everywhere, if only one knew to look.”
― The Lost Apothecary
“The end is still unwritten. Let's hope it's a happy one.”
― The Book of Living Secrets
― The Book of Living Secrets
“God, Shall I compare thee to an icebox pie? Couldn't be gayer if she tried.”
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
― I Kissed Shara Wheeler
“For many of these women," Nella whispered, "this may be the only place their names are recorded. The only place they will be remembered. It is a promise I made to my mother, to preserve the existence of these women whose names would otherwise be erased from history. The world is not kind to us...There are few places for a woman to leave an indelible mark." I finished tracing an entry, moving on to the next one. "But this register preserves them -- their names, their memories, their worth.”
― The Lost Apothecary
― The Lost Apothecary
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