Milk of Paradise Quotes

“President Ronald Reagan dedicated the space shuttle Columbia ‘to the people of Afghanistan’, calling their struggles ‘the highest aspiration of mankind’.”
― Lucy Inglis, Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

“The treatment of leg wounds was one of the areas of huge improvement during the war. In the first year, 80 per cent of soldiers suffering a broken thigh bone died, but thanks to Robert Jones bringing his uncle’s invention, the Thomas splint, to the battlefield, where the thigh is stretched then held by traction, by 1916, 80 per cent of the wounded survived.”
― Lucy Inglis, Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

“Heroin was a tremendous success,”
― Lucy Inglis, Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

“God made the world but Wong made this cake’.”
― Lucy Inglis, Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium

“علينا ألا ننسى قط أن هذه معركة نتقاتل فيها مع أنفسَنا فحسب”
― Lucy Inglis, Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium