Status Updates From The Golden Isle

"Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts."

"Which will it be, Dr. Stone? A slave's fingers at your throat or me in your arms?"

"She opened her eyes wide as she spoke and looked up at him with complete confidence. There was no withdrawal in that look, no false modesty. No woman on earth, he insisted, had the right to stare into a man's eyes so deeply."

In my book right now, I am thinking about how the book relates so much to history. Like how there were carriages that were pulled by horses. Also, the book reminds me of how this doctor is very selfish by just going out to safe people for money, and just so he can us his scalpel when he should be thinking about saving people for the sake of their life.