"The Dress Lodger" Quotes
In 1830s cholera-ridden Sunderland, a young prostitute named Gustine struggles to survive while entangled in a dangerous alliance with a desperate surgeon seeking cadavers for medical research.
historical fiction | 291 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only thing she knew for sure was that she was never going to die in the workhouse. She would rather die on the street, or in the mud, or in the river, or in the belly of a sewer rat, but she would never die where they'd put her.
Life is precious and precarious, and sometimes you have to do whatever it takes to survive.
The world is a cruel place, and the only way to survive is to be crueler.
Freedom is not something you are given, it's something you take for yourself.
In the end, we are all just trying to make our way in a world that does not always welcome us.
Sometimes the only way to survive is to become what everyone else fears.
The world is a dark and dangerous place, but there is still beauty to be found if you look hard enough.
We are all just trying to find our place in a world that constantly tries to push us down.
Love is a luxury for those who can afford it, and for the rest of us, survival is the only priority.
In a world that is constantly changing, the only thing we can rely on is our own strength.
