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“Beneath the ink strokes of my register hid betrayal, anguish… and dark secrets.” (The Lost Apothecary Quotes)
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Every woman has faced a man’s wickedness to some degree. Even you, I am an apothecary, and it is my duty to dispense remedies to women. And so over the years they have come to me, and I have sold them what they wish. I have protected their secrets. I have borne the brunt of their burdens.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Heartache is shared by all, and favors no rank.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“History doesn’t record the intricacies of women’s relationships with one another; they’re not to be uncovered.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“I did not set out to brew poisons. It is not as though I came from the womb a born killer. Something happened to me, long ago. I was in love once, you see.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“I’ve learned more about our marriage while apart from you than I ever did when we lived under the same roof.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“If there was anything that the last few days had taught me, it was the importance of shining new light on old truths hidden in dark places.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“If there’s one thing I do know, it’s the importance of chasing dreams. Believe me, if you want something different, the only person holding you back is you.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“It is a strange puzzle. For as much as I have worked to fix women’s maladies, I cannot fix my own. My grief has never gone away, not in twenty years For this kind of pain, no such tincture exists.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“It is the most distressing thing, to issue pain to someone, even when you know it is for the best.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Killing and secret-keeping had done this to me. It had begun to rot me from the inside out, and something inside meant to tear me open.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“London grants little to women in need of tender care; instead, it crawls with gentlemen’s doctors, each as unprincipled and corrupt as the next. My mother committed to giving women a place of refuge, a place where they might be vulnerable and forthcoming about their ailments without the lascivious appraisal of a man.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Magic and disguise may achieve the same end, but I assure you, they are very different things.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Our brains are meant to identify breaks in a pattern. We evolved that way, many millions of years ago. You are not searching for a thing so much as you are searching for an inconsistency of things, or an absence.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The best apothecary was one who knows intimately the despair felt by her patient, whether in body or heart.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The curse of magick, they believe, is that for every reward, there is a great loss. For every spell that goes right, there is something else – in the real, natural world – that goes terribly wrong.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The life of an apothecary is a strange, solitary one.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The things a person most wanted to say were often the things they should keep tucked away inside.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The unknown had once been an unpleasant concept to me, but I realized now the opportunity in it. The excitement in it.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“The world is not kind to us… there are few places for a woman to leave an indelible mark.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“To me, the allure of history lay in the minutiae of life long ago, the untold secrets of ordinary people.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Vengeance is its own medicine.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Was it selfish to put our own happiness before the needs of another human being, one who didn’t even yet exist?”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“Why did we go to such lengths to protect the fragile minds of children? We only robbed them of the truth – and the chance to grow numb to it before it arrived with a hard knock on the door.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“You can be anything you want in London. Nothing great awaits you in the farm fields. The fences would have kept you in, as they do the pigs and as they’ve done to me. But in London? Well, in time, if you are clever about it, you can wield your own power like a magician. In a city so grand, even a poor girl can transform into whatever she desires to be.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
“You must trust your instinct more than your eyes.”
Sarah Penner
The Lost Apothecary
