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― Sarah Penner , The Lost Apothecary
2 " My mother had held tight to this principle, instilling in me from an early age the importance of providing a safe haven - a place of healing - females. "
3 " Intermingled in the mess was another, subtler secret ... we were happy, yet unfulfilled. It was possible, I understood now, to be both at the same time. "
4 " It is the most distressing thing, Eliza, to issue pain to someone, even when you know it is for the best. "
5 " First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust ... what you have learned is the same heart-wrenching journey of every woman to whom I have sold a poison. And it is, indeed, the same path for me. "
6 " I now stood at a crossroads, and I didn't dare look back at the road behind me—the road littered with monotony, complacency and other people's expectations. "
7 " Why do 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. "
8 " But I knew from writing Mrs. Amwell's letters that the things a person most wanted to say were often the things they should keep tucked away inside. "
9 " if you want something different, the only person holding you back is you. What is it you love to do? "
10 " It's okay to change," I interrupted, "but it's not okay to hide, to bury parts of ourselves. "
11 " First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust. "
12 " To me, the allure of history lay in the minutiae of life long ago, the untold secrets of ordinary people. "
13 " Healing by way of vengeance ... no such thing existed; it never had. Hurting others had only injured me further. "
14 " ... not everything in my life was how I imagined it would be, and that I hadn't lived up to my own potential. And worst of all, I'd been too scared to even try. "
15 " Why did we suffer to keep secrets? Merely to protect ourselves, or to protect others? "
16 " History doesn’t record the intricacies of women’s relationships with one another; they’re not to be uncovered. "
17 " that the hardest truths never rest on the surface. They must be dredged up, held to the light and rinsed clean. "
18 " 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. "
19 " Beneath the ink strokes of my register held betrayal, anguish and...dark secrets. "
20 " 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. "
