Ute Cray

“arnica for pains and bruises, mandrake for sleeplessness, and pennyroyal, a flowering mint, for unwanted pregnancy. For dysentery, egg whites and boiled milk. For fainting spells, a tablespoon”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles

“It is beyond my comprehension. Love has entered me like a disease, so stealthily I have not seen its approach nor heard its footsteps. My mind recognises the folly of it and yet I still boil and burn with it, precisely as with a fever.
To whom shall I turn to be cured? From his damp abitation, I hear Pearce make a Pearcean reply: he does not pause or hesitate before instructing, 'To yourself, Merivel'.”
― Rose Tremain, Restoration

“It is merely that I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.”
― Rose Tremain, Merivel: A Man of His Time

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav