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21 " One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances with astonishing speed. "
― Maile Meloy , Do Not Become Alarmed
22 " you—die? "
― Maile Meloy , The After-Room (The Apothecary, #3)
23 " People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest. "
24 " They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness. "
25 " But the commandments were absolute. The stone tablets Moses brought down from the mountain had not said Thou shalt not kill except when fighting Nazis, or in self-defense, or in some other situations, listed below. Thou shalt not steal unless thou art near death with hunger fighting in a just cause, or hath a family to support, or if perhaps an irresistible opportunity to get rich presenteth itself. "
26 " It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'), "
27 " and braking, "
28 " He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out. "
― Maile Meloy , The Apothecary (The Apothecary, #1)
29 " But how could you measure your own pain against the pain of the world? "
30 " Maybe the Fates snipped with their scissors when they wanted to snip. "
31 " Benjamin called it “estro-lock,” the way the two women could talk for hours and lose track of time. They ended up in conversation across any table, screening out noise from kids and men. They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness. "
32 " Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default. "
33 " What has mattered, always, is that they're together, and everything else falls away. "
― Maile Meloy
34 " I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around. "
35 " Maybe we made her feel safe,' Aaron said. 'So she can be brave. "
36 " working the salt-roughened lines. They had "
― Maile Meloy , The Apprentices (The Apothecary, #2)
37 " Our work is an ongoing struggle with unintended consequences. We must try to narrow the gap, which is sometimes a gulf, between what we intend and the results we achieve. "