The Girl in His Shadow Quotes

“A marriage license is not a medical license, Dr. Croft. I am still hopeful I may obtain both.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“She felt herself suspended inside a storm cloud, the electric charges crackling dangerously around her and her only retreat a fatal fall.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He put down his scalpel and let her see the hurt in his eyes. She did not know if he could see hers.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“That is the great benefit of being a man, with every opportunity in the world before you. You cannot understand.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“Gathering the strands of her fraying temper,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He had bits of some of them, floating in jars, and he wrote up their cases to print in his books. In a tattered edition of the Lancet, Nora discovered her own story with Dr. Croft’s prediction that having recovered from cholera, she’d gained immunity to the disease, and realized that she, too, was a specimen.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“surgery was the vanguard of scientific discovery, a challenge, a test of his mettle, a set of skills that saved lives. Mother had softened at the idea of fame and success, but this contretemps over his arrival made Daniel doubt the wisdom of his choice. Surgery? Why indeed.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“Women, as the morally superior gender, were made for “sweet ordering,” for instilling Christian principles in children and comforting weary men after the trials of the day.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“returned”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“women were not admitted to Pall Mall clubs,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“troglodytes,”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow

“He was pondering how Dr. Croft kept curious onlookers from beholding gory surgeries in a glass atrium.”
― Audrey Blake, The Girl in His Shadow