Immortality: A Love Story Quotes
"This is going to hurt. I am sorry about that." - Hazel Sinnett
"It’s Martin, isn’t it? I’m Hazel. Dr. Sinnett. Miss Sinnett." - Hazel Sinnett
"Eight siblings! Your poor mother." - Hazel Sinnett
"I’m going to need a cloth. Is there a rag I can use?" - Hazel Sinnett
"It’s very important for Martin to have an orange if he’s going to get well." - Hazel Sinnett
"Though the speed at which the Roman fever seizes its patients varies, the presentation of symptoms is—perhaps comfortingly—routine." - Notes from Hazel Sinnett, A Treatise on Modern Medicine
"I just couldn’t have his baby." - Unknown woman
"There was no rule that said a woman surgeon couldn’t also wear beautiful things, was there?" - Hazel Sinnett
"You’re safe here. I’ll take care of you." - Hazel Sinnett
"No, Perce," she had said. "That is a place where very bad people go when they hurt other people. And we never need to worry about that."
"Everything would be sorted out, Hazel told herself. Everything would be fine."
"Please send help. I have been arrested by a High Constable and brought to Calton Gaol on false charges. I have little room to write and no word on when I will be released.—Hazel Sinnett"
"Is this a trial?" Hazel said. "Surely I’m permitted a barrister."
"I need to write a letter," Hazel said, finding her voice as the guard escorted her down a long hallway. "Several letters, in fact."
"I was summoned here as a physician to treat Princess Charlotte."
"Royal Court might be a friendlier prison, but it is a prison all the same."
"I’m just the night guard. I don’t handle any of that."
"The bodies of hanged criminals were the only legal corpses permitted for dissection."
"I’m sure you’re aware that Princess Charlotte of Wales has been in some ill health."
"Consider yourself in the service of the royal household."
"I’m not scared, thank you. I just find the conversation—"
"That’s the problem. I came here with a cup of tea, hoping to make a good impression."
"You can’t start shooting until you’ve settled into place."
"I see you’ve finished your tea. I’ll take your cup, and allow you the quiet to do your writing."
"I have to know. It’s been driving me mad with curiosity. Just an affectation, then?"
"Oh, heavens!" Charlotte said, tearing Edwina from Hazel's arms. The dog licked her mother's face happily.
"I won’t be healing you," Hazel said. "Because there’s nothing wrong with you at all. You’ve been faking it."
"Every woman marries into obsolescence," Eliza said.
"I suppose that’s why I have no intention of ever getting married," Hazel said.
"You’re a doctor, Hazel Sinnett, whatever else you want to call yourself."
"I remind you all," the Frenchman said, "I was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences by the empress’s personal command. I think I have a few of her letters here somewhere.…"
"I don’t want to live forever." No one said anything, and so Hazel continued. "It’s too permanent."
"It's just Miss, actually," Hazel said. "I’m a surgeon. And, to be completely honest with you, I never actually passed the Royal Examination."
"You’re a fool, Byron. And you will continue to fumble through this world blind to everything but your own ego until you recognize that."
"She’s a surgeon and she’s read Pliny the Younger," Marie-Anne said. "How charming."
"I believe fame turns a lack of manners into charming idiosyncrasy. Really, it’s a gift I give to high society. I come in, do or say something outrageous, and the rest of them get to spend the rest of their lives preening on about the simply audacious behavior of Lord Byron."
"The most incredible laboratory Hazel had ever seen."
"A life on the streets had taught him the importance of action versus foresight."
"Maybe in America, Hazel could even work as a surgeon openly."
"The glass, Mr. Ellis, is gone. You cannot simply glue the pieces back together."
"Science is not poetry. At a certain point, Miss Sinnett, it is knowable."
"To grow old with someone? To not remain the same while the people they love change and die around them?"
"You’re immortal. You have nothing but future."
"I am going to live forever. Do you hear me? I will never age."
"Give me up, Hazel. Turn me into a good memory."
"The Jack that you knew died. For everyone’s sake, I wish he had stayed dead."
"You’re the Princess of Wales, future Queen of England."
"And then one day, I shall cease to be Charlotte altogether."
"You are a very talented surgeon and physician. I hope whatever you are doing with this body works out the way you plan."
"People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exceptions."
"Things look smaller. We can see the entire tapestry while the stitches are being sewn, do you understand?"
"A nation needs a leader, but it also needs to be controlled, by those with vision, and intelligence."
"I respect the people. A nation must be in service of its people, and its government must represent them."
"We wanted him controlled. It is a precise and delicate balance, you see."
"There might no longer be French champagne or Italian wine or evenings rubbing elbows with royals or celebrities. But she would be doing what was right."
"My work would be slow and long and deliberate: person to person, as many individuals as I could serve."
"In the year of our Lord two thousand and eighteen, when we all live beneath the sea, or in flying machines in the air, we can decide whether we want to continue on an immortal life together."
"I have yet to come up with a way in which undoing the milk in the tea would become possible."
"The Tincture to a soul is like milk into tea: you can stir it in, but no matter how vigorously you stir in the other direction, the milk will never separate."
"I will be by your side for your entire life. I will give you everything I am."