Kate Rose Books & Quotes

“His entire existence had been accumulating towards this moment; as if all his sorrow, all the pain and manifold disasters were necessary in order for the ecstasy of this one blissful moment to exist.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“I am an apothecary, madam…’ But for some reason he is thinking of the trajectory of winged creatures, of interludes of happiness, a little flight, a little wading through mud.”

Love Soul Pain Fiction Romantic Hardship Demons Troubled Women S Romance

Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“Life does not anchor the romantic for long. You will soon be adrift amongst impracticalities. Romance is of the surface of life, a feather floating on a rough and troubled sea.”

Love Soul Pain Fiction Romantic Hardship Demons Troubled Women S Romance

Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“Jeremiah has come to see life as a serious of motions he must enact towards its conclusion.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“His own beliefs being simple in comparison; the God he was familiar with dished out regular and doubtless deserved punishment and every once in a while, took pity on him, moreover resembling a relationship he once had with his nursemaid.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“I heal,’ she says, ‘tis what I do.’”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“Holding Brigid in his arms, it is quite clear they are more than the sum of their fragile parts. They are unified, made whole. With some certainty he knows no further hardships can befall him, not now he has found Brigid.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“I admire your beliefs Miss Zeldin, and rest assured… you could never offend me.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“And as his body thaws into hers, he is no longer sure where her pleasure ends and his begins, for bodies and minds deliquesce into something of a stupor.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“Thus, Jeremiah’s love affair ends with a dull journey in which two doctors speak of the merits of Claudius Amyand’s successful appendectomy, the quality of French roads, moving onto other topics the reserve of the serious minded and Jeremiah, in his confinement, gazes out at the landscape, at the great conquered land lying between himself and his beloved and inwardly weeps, acknowledging that a whore in Covent Garden had foreseen it all.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“His theory stands, however, that a cure operates primarily through the dispensing healer’s understanding of the individual, as well as the nature of plants… And in the interstices where neither cure not hope can reach, there is laudanum.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“When I am with you…’ He dips the quill, determined, ‘my soul is more than content. It is rendered…’ He forces the nib forwards. ‘… in a state of miraculous Completion.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“What I am trying to say is that insofar as religion and many other beliefs are concerned, my mind no longer possesses the power to imprison me; any punishment which I perceive to be doled out by God, is moreover the result of my own doing.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“And she kisses him with a hunger, using her tongue, and he closes his eyes and sees only the brilliance of pure blinding light.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“Love is but a reflection of oneself in the looking glass.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

Kate Rose Books

The Angel and the Apothecary

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