Quotes About Foxlee

#1. I'm really disappointed about how you've turned out, shouted Mum like Beth was a slightly burnt biscuit.

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#2. If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.

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#3. Sudden singing was the only type I really missed. When sudden singing happened it came out of the blue and made me feel so good that my toes curled up and I got goose bumps all over my body and tears in my eyes.

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#4. Do you promise?' said Edie, which changed things.

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#5. The cicadas were singing a song.
It was a one-noted, one-worded; The words sounded like "please".
They were singing and singing and singing and the whole world was falling down.

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#6. A glimpse, a little piece of their story, flapping like ribbon in the wind.

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#7. Do you know what love is like, Rose? It's like having a sky, a whole sky racing inside you. Four seasons' worth of sky. One minute you are soaring and then you are all thunderclouds and then you are deep with stars and then you are empty.

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#8. The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made your heart stop and ache and start again.

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#9. The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them.

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#10. It was like a slap. I dont remember her being mean before that. It made Miranda smile. The smile that unlocked something in Beth like a key

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#11. This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones

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#12. The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people to stake their claim to a patch of soggy green land, a huge boat, Titanic-size, on the back of a truck.

Karen Foxlee

#13. You should think with your heart,' said her mother.
'My heart?' whispered Ophelia.
'Your heart,' said her mother, and she touched Ophelia's chest with the tip of her finger. It was the tiniest of touches, but a warmth and new hope spread through Ophelia's body. She began to smile.

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#14. There's no point being frightened of the night.

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#15. He did not say goodbye, but she felt him leave. In the shadows of her closed eyes, she saw the forest path and saw him there. When she opened her eyes, he was gone. He had simply ceased to be.

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#16. After the kiss some of it still sparkled in the air around her.

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#17. She won't come back.

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#18. Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case.

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#19. Old things can become new things.

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#20. It was only a little piece of knowledge but it felt as shiny and solid as a new twenty-cent piece in my hand to know i could find the thing that was wrong.

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#21. All those days had been removed, simply and precisely, whole weeks brimming with cloudless blue skies neatly severed and discarded. We needed Beth's name shouted not whispered.

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#22. When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater.

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#23. The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated.

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#24. Ophelia had never been prophesied before. It made her feel annoyed.

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#25. Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she'd probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it started.

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#26. The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

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#27. When you are in love, you think nothing will ever be the same but then the tide rushes out and there it is, everything, just as it was.

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#28. Girls are good at running away. It's a fact.

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#29. Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast

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#30. She was running out of the room as fast as she could, with the sword raised before her. She called back to her father. I'll be back soon. I've just got to save the world.

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#31. There will be nothing to say something terrible has happened, but they will know it all the same. Nothing will be found. Not a trace of the girl in the midnight dress.

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#32. If you ever shoot a great magical owl with an arrow, you should remember this, Ophelia. Everything is connected. If you touch the ground, you touch the tops of trees. If you touch the trees, you touch the wings of birds.

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#33. We can just talk,' he says. Like a boy.

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#34. I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on top of the wind. I would be above everything, over the little towns clinging to the highway. I would be a part of everything.

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#35. But later, when he found the note, he realized he was very late and had to run.

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#36. I need your help," the boy said, "to save the world.

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#37. Everything that she saw glowing during the day seemed tarnished beside the light that was at the heart of the evening. the bleached color of things replaced by a beauty that stole into everything. the pale yellow leaves grew golden. The white gems opened up their hearts and shone.

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#38. There's no way to slow it down now it has begun.

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#39. There is a whole week inside each day.

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#40. Tell me I'm here.

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#41. If we knew everything would change we would have turned back but we didn't know. Thats how things happen. Especially sunny days hide dark moments in their pockets.

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