The Angel and the Apothecary Quotes

“What I am trying to say is that insofar as religion and many other beliefs are concerned, my mind no longer possesses the power to imprison me; any punishment which I perceive to be doled out by God, is moreover the result of my own doing.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“It was not too farfetched to see this moment as the beginning of an intense communion with Nature; mind and body willingly rendered into a vessel through which She could enact her cures. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“Jeremiah has come to see life as a serious of motions he must enact towards its conclusion.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“I admire your beliefs Miss Zeldin, and rest assured… you could never offend me.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“Holding Brigid in his arms, it is quite clear they are more than the sum of their fragile parts. They are unified, made whole. With some certainty he knows no further hardships can befall him, not now he has found Brigid.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“ 
'This is, you understand Mr Goode, exceptional for an unknown author and on account of the South Sea Bubble bursting, well, I am no longer given to advancing large copyrights but since you are blessed by good timing - great fortune bestowing you with a cold spell that has made London so terribly sick - I make an exception.' ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“His own beliefs being simple in comparison; the God he was familiar with dished out regular and doubtless deserved punishment and every once in a while, took pity on him, moreover resembling a relationship he once had with his nursemaid. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“His entire existence had been accumulating towards this moment; as if all his sorrow, all the pain and manifold disasters were necessary in order for the ecstasy of this one blissful moment to exist.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“As for the merchants, they were the clever ones, understanding the sensitivities of their fellow man, his weaknesses, his petty longings. Some were already wealthier than earls. Indeed, if he possessed their cunning, their insatiable greed, he might invent a remedy comprised of pigs’ fat and arsenic, place a notice in the Public Advertiser and have Boswell walk the streets selling the stuff! Eventually, they would become rich. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“I am an apothecary, madam…’ But for some reason he is thinking of the trajectory of winged creatures, of interludes of happiness, a little flight, a little wading through mud.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“Thus, Jeremiah’s love affair ends with a dull journey in which two doctors speak of the merits of Claudius Amyand’s successful appendectomy, the quality of French roads, moving onto other topics the reserve of the serious minded and Jeremiah, in his confinement, gazes out at the landscape, at the great conquered land lying between himself and his beloved and inwardly weeps, acknowledging that a whore in Covent Garden had foreseen it all.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“And she kisses him with a hunger, using her tongue, and he closes his eyes and sees only the brilliance of pure blinding light. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“And as his body thaws into hers, he is no longer sure where her pleasure ends and his begins, for bodies and minds deliquesce into something of a stupor.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“Love is but a reflection of oneself in the looking glass.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“And so the Dark Angel once more embeds herself in Jeremiah’s’ mind. If not for the gardener he might believe each appearance an apparition for she does not belong amongst the sombre apothecaries and their fledgling apprentices, musing on herbs as if they are already in phials and not aligned for appreciating beauty. No, such a woman - any woman for that matter - did not belong in the Physic Gardens; though with this particular woman, Jeremiah cannot discern quite where she belonged. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“When I am with you…’ He dips the quill, determined, ‘my soul is more than content. It is rendered…’ He forces the nib forwards. ‘… in a state of miraculous Completion.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“With his body pressed to hers there is no sense of an ending, but of moments in which a part of his self is given, ceaselessly. For this woman he would be born a thousand times; endure a thousand agonising births. He would be happy to exist as her lover and nothing besides. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“His theory stands, however, that a cure operates primarily through the dispensing healer’s understanding of the individual, as well as the nature of plants… And in the interstices where neither cure not hope can reach, there is laudanum. ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“I heal,’ she says, ‘tis what I do.’ ”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“Life does not anchor the romantic for long. You will soon be adrift amongst impracticalities. Romance is of the surface of life, a feather floating on a rough and troubled sea.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“I find solace in my own company for it is only in solitude does one become familiar with the language of one’s soul.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary

“If I can heal the mind I can heal the body, or the body can be healed and the mind will follow.”
― Kate Rose, The Angel and the Apothecary