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Opium and Absinthe QUOTES

Opium and Absinthe QUOTES

1 " To be surrounded by books, by thoughts, by places and people and things that she had not yet met—it was a haven unlike any other. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

2 " Stories are how the world evolves. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

3 " So long as I can learn about this precious, extraordinary, and occasionally heartless world, I can be content. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

4 " Defeat is particularly lethal early on in any journey; don’t let it be your compass "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

5 " Forgetting is an act of survival. We are women, Mathilda. We endure to survive. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

6 " Housework can be deadly, "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

7 " Humans needed meat and vegetables and desserts. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

8 " The clouds were a perfect white on turquoise. How rude of the sky to be so blue and pretty when Lucy couldn’t admire it. Such a thoughtless sky. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

9 " Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

10 " Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make! "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

11 " I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

12 " Temperance Society of Union Square. They perceived physical discomfort to be a personal failing rather than true sickness. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

13 " Grandmama had presumably finished her pipe in her bedroom, and while her mother was bathing her face in buttermilk up at her vanity, "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

14 " Therefore, I, on my part, give up here the certainty of eternal rest, and go out into the dark where may be the blackest things that the world or the nether world holds! —Mina Harker "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

15 " like taking a bite of a poisoned cake that was so delectable you didn’t mind if it killed you in the process. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

16 " She was in a darkened room, one that stank of camphor and illness, like the dust of a thousand old memories all within one single, stifling room. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

17 " We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways. —Jonathan Harker "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

18 " I like to hear about my father and his family. It’s part of my evolution. "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

19 " But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others . . . He throws no shadow; he make in the mirror no reflect . . . he has the strength of many of his hand. —Van Helsing Second "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe

20 " lambent "

― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe