Quotes from the book A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang

A funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn't it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there's still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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Somewhere in the world at that moment, there was a birth, a death, a sunrise, and a sunset. There was despair, and a burst of laughter, a promise broken, and a vow made.
And there was this kiss.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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She had the sort of beauty that left you bleeding internally after gazing for too long.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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About Lydia Kang

Lydia Kang (born October 4, 1971) is an American author and internal medicine physician, best known for her adult historical novel Opium and Absinthe: A Novel and her medical nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, co-written with Nate Pedersen.

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