The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel) Quotes

“Do they know each other?” Gramps had asked, to which Chou-u had replied, “She practically collects weird guys like him.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 6

“One of the strange things about humans is how they become calm when someone else is struggling worse than they are.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 6

“Admittedly, her absence was a relief in one way, but at the same time, it unsettled him. Yet he could practically see what the girl, almost a full shaku shorter than him, would do to him if he hurried now. He would have to make the most of this situation.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 6

“If people were going to treat doctors and apothecaries as if they were sages like those, they should make their physicians’ lives nice enough to put them in the mood. One’s basic needs had to be met before one could practice medicine. What would be the point if, leading a deprived life, the doctor got sick themselves?”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 6

“Jinshi himself felt that, notwithstanding her imperviousness to poisons, she was still a small and delicate-looking girl who seemed as fragile as the next young woman—but strangely, he found he couldn’t imagine her breaking like that. Maybe because he’d seen her laugh uproariously as she took poison, or come back from being kidnapped looking as calm as if she’d been away running errands, and on and on.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 6