The Surgeon's Daughter Quotes

“Don’t ever stop. There aren’t enough impossible women.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“You cannot heal the human body until you acknowledge its purpose to house the soul.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“You are impossible,” Magdalena said and sniffed. A patch of damp grew on Nora’s right shoulder. “Don’t ever stop. There aren’t enough impossible women.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Perra’s hand caught her arm gently. “No. I will do all I can to spare them. But if they pass, I will not beat my breast. I will pray for them and commend them into another Healer’s hands.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Never give up your post at the crossroads of life and death. People will say you do not belong there because you are a woman. But look to the Sacred Mother. She screamed in agony to bring God into the world and screamed in agony when he was torn from it. She kept her post. Will you do the same, Eleanora? Or will you let someone or something drive you from your place of life and death?”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“If you quit now, Eleanora, you will waste their deaths. What you learned will be for nothing. You will leave others to repeat your mistakes. And they will.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“You may cage the pain, postpone it, let it settle in the joints as arthritis or fill the arteries of the heart, but the moment of attack will come. The pain will be felt in its full power, no matter how long you have kept it at bay.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“English doctors teach their patients how to live at any cost. We must also teach them how to die in peace. It is the most important part of our work.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“To stand at the gate of life and death is a calling, not a profession. If you accept the call, you will live where joy meets misery and ecstasy meets torment. You will walk between suffering and relief. You will grant life and destroy it.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“She screamed in agony to bring God into the world and screamed in agony when he was torn from it. She kept her post.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Of course he couldn’t speak for Mae, but he thought—hoped—they’d each be happier with futures they’d chosen rather than the ones they’d learned to expect.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“God came through a woman’s body. It is time a womb was given the respect it deserves.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Nothing comes close to it in importance, magnitude, or power. I believe it is a calling. A difficult, sometimes miserable one, but a miraculous one as well.”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter

“Right at this moment, I’m rereading The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, which I love, and listening to Ben Philippe’s Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend. I just finished the The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and can’t wait for the sequel, which releases next month. And at the end of this month, Helen Hoang’s next book, The Heart Principle, comes out, and I’ve been looking forward to that one, too. I’m also midway through Why They Marched by Susan Ware, and next I’m diving into Rebel Girls: How Votes for Women Changed Edwardian Lives by Jill Liddington. R:”
― Audrey Blake, The Surgeon's Daughter