Quotes from Jennifer Lee Carrell

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

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

Her first rebellion was to write. Her second was to learn. And her third was to love. She

There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell.

There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell." In

There's a small army of people right here in Boston who've undergone the operation in Africa—" "Africans!" snorted Dr. Douglass. "Idiots!

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

How am I chang'd! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown! For

But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.

They repented their manifold sins and then fled out to buy amulets and astrological signs against the scourge.

I know not whether you can make me happy, she concluded to Wortley; you have convinced me you can make me miserable. That

Men are vile inconstant toads,

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.

I doubt if he himself leaks even enough to piss more than once a year on his birthday,

It is notable that both people specifically scapegoated as the first to fall ill were black men.

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.