The Speckled Monster Quotes

“Her first rebellion was to write. Her second was to learn. And her third was to love.   She”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“It is notable that both people specifically scapegoated as the first to fall ill were black men.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There’s a small army of people right here in Boston who’ve undergone the operation in Africa—” “Africans!” snorted Dr. Douglass. “Idiots!”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell.”   In”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“I cannot forbear admiring the very great sagacity of the men who first invented this method,” he said upon one return. “What makes you think it was men?” asked Lady Mary, raising an eyebrow. He stopped in his tracks and stared at her. “I—” “Men do not practice it. Why should they have invented it?” In answer, he turned on his heel and swept back out; he did not come back in for some time.   Disaster”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“But it was not just that admirers had fled, she mused; her enemies were stepping out of the shadows to take their place.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“How am I chang’d! Alas, how am I grown A frightful spectre to myself unknown!   For”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“None of you has the least notion of what to do in the face of smallpox, save to scrape to yourselves tidy fortunes in fees for your ignorance.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“Men are vile inconstant toads,”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“I know not whether you can make me happy, she concluded to Wortley; you have convinced me you can make me miserable. That”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“They repented their manifold sins and then fled out to buy amulets and astrological signs against the scourge.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

“There is nothing, my boy, to spark compassion like a sojourn in hell.”
― Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox