The Dress Lodger Quotes

“Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
― Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger

“No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.”
― Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger

“Nature does not provide one nerve without pairing it a second, he'd said. She invests us with two lungs, two kidneys, two eyes, two ears. The singular brain is divided into identical hemispheres; the heart has two corresponding auricles and ventricles. We are paired creatures, mourns Henry. He took the dress lodger's baby. She took his beloved in return. He should have realized: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Even revenge is paired.”
― Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger