The Apothecary’s House Quotes

“Niekuomet netikėkite, kad mums pražudo didelės klaidos. Tai padaro mažos klaidelės.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“A spirit of practicality had come to her aid. It was only human. When the earthquake stops, when the flood recedes, when the volcanic dust settles or the guns fall silent, the survivors pick their way through the rubble and debris and wreckage. A chair leg here, a first communion certificate or a bundle of love letters there. The flotsam and jetsam of the old ways―the ways that will never return.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,’ said Ruth. ‘It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby―of an alchemist who’d accidentally discovered phosphorus. He’s just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“To get this right, you’d have to know what codes were doing the round in the eighteenth century, wouldn’t you? Mind you, it ain’t always easy. You’ve heard of the Voynich Manuscript?’
‘No.’
‘A scientific book, at least four hundred years old, written in code. No one’s ever managed to crack that one, not even you modern whizz-kids.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“Hitler was – well, a bit of a Hitler, to put it bluntly. He got what he wanted. Nobody stood in his way. But there was one incident this reminds me of. I’m thinking of the Kröller-Müller Museum. Goering was very much taken by three paintings there that the museum’s benefactors had bought in Germany. A Portrait of a Lady by Bruyn the Elder, a Venus by Cranach and another Venus by Hans Baldung Grien. He reckoned the price had been set too low and they ought to go back to Germany – to his own private collection, natch. So he sent in Kajetan Mühlmann to deal with the museum’s director. Goering got his pictures but he had to let one of them go. Hans Posse, the Linz director, wrote to Martin Bormann saying the Baldung Grien Venus was one of the masterpieces of the German Renaissance. When Hitler got wind of this, he snapped up the painting for Linz. There was nothing Goering could do.”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary’s House

“Nobody”
― Adrian Mathews, The Apothecary's House