Vanessa

“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher”—whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice—was paid more than its surgeons.”
― Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

“...and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Don't let them win. Don't let them beat you. Don't let them steal your magic.”
― Brom, The Child Thief

“If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.”
― Brom, The Child Thief