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1 " No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story. "
― Megan Shepherd , Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman's Daughter, #2)
2 " Sometimes you have to embrace the darkness to stop it. "
3 " Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness. "
4 " Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside. "
5 " How could a monster love anything but destruction? "
6 " It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it. "
7 " He smiled grimly, though there was no glee in it, as though for once he understood how heartbreaking this was for me. 'No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness-it all depends on who's telling the story.' His hand stopped tapping, and that humanity flickered again in his eye. 'You're perfect as you are, my love. "
8 " Hate the part of him that gave in to madness. But don't hate your father, not all of him. There was a time when he loved you very much, and that's what you should remember. "
9 " No serum can change who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness- it all depends on who's telling the story. "
10 " The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right "
11 " She stayed up late most nights, dressed in a housecoat in the library until all hours, wearing reading glasses not unlike the professor’s wire spectacles, drinking licorice tea laced with gin—she didn’t know that I knew—and staring out the window at the city lights. "
12 " I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know.""How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox? "
13 " How can I act like Papa doesn’t have a brain in a hatbox? "
14 " You know I’d follow you anywhere. Though I fear we’ll both end up damned. "
15 " There was still beauty in the world, still innocence. "
16 " Your father science isn’t the problem. Because of it Edward exists, and he has just as much humanity in him as any of us. You've had it all wrong. It's just like what you said at the flower shop: 'It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn’t do good or ill by itself – it’s the intention behind it. And your father‘s intention to create Edward was good. "
17 " What you hate is what you are. An animal, just like me. Don’t pretend like you’ve never imagined it—the thrill of the hunt. No chaperones, no silk stockings, nothing holding you back. Tearing through the city like we were back on that island, feeling your blood boil, your pulse race. You’re jealous of my freedom. You said it yourself once. "
18 " Juliet, this is my father. You have the luxury of knowing yours was insane. I can’t sleep until I find out what the devil mine is up to. "
19 " Now I understand why you’re friends. I thought you were the most impossible woman in the world, but now I see there are two of you. "
20 " Children who had no family were the ones who cherished the idea of family the most. "
