Medicus Quotes

“Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, "What a lot of things a man doesn’t need!”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“...a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“Before long he felt the peaceful floating sensation of a man vaguely and happily aware that he is falling asleep.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“Ruso’s working space contained three shelves, a collection of unmatched stools and chairs, an examination table by the window, and a desk whose migratory tendencies had been curbed by a previous incumbent with a hammer and several large nails.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“There was no justice in the ways of the world. Ruso, who had saved the girl's life, was rewarded with weeping and "Let me die." Valens, who would have fixed her broken arm with a sharp saw, was granted a pleasant chat.”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus

“wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under”
― Ruth Downie, Medicus