Karen Foxlee Quotes

Do you promise?' said Edie, which changed things. ~ Karen Foxlee

But later, when he found the note, he realized he was very late and had to run. ~ Karen Foxlee

The strangest think I have learned is that it's impossible to know what's inside someone. The wizards didn't teach me this, but I have learned it myself. Those who appear tall and straight and very good are sometimes rotten on the inside, and others, huge and clawed and apparently very bad, sometimes contain a pure and sweet form of goodness. The biggest trap is to judge a person by their outer casing. Their skin. Their hair. Their snow-white feathers. ~ Karen Foxlee

Wizards, she thought, when she gained her composure. What good were they if they couldn't tell you how to do stuff, if they were always talking in riddles and saying they knew everything before it even happened? It wasn't very helpful.
If she were a wizard, she'd write reports for people. She'd make sure everything was very clear. She'd write, Looking for a magical sword? No problem. Go to the fifth floor, turn left, open a large wooden chest, et cetera, et cetera. She'd have check boxes. Found your magical sword? Place X here. ~ Karen Foxlee

There is a whole week inside each day. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

After the kiss some of it still sparkled in the air around her. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

Before everything happened I wished i had double voice box like a song bird so I could sing two songs at once, the way a bird can harmonize with itself. I wanted to sing crystal clear notes. I wanted to sing them one after anther in ascending order. And at the same time I wanted to let another fountain of notes descend from my heart. ~ Karen Foxlee

And you might think a name is just a name, nothing but a word, but that is not the case. Your name is tacked to you. Where it has joined you, it has seeped into your skin and into your essence and into your soul. So when they plucked my name from me with their spell, it was as heavy as a rock in their hands but as invisible as the wind, and it wasn't just the memory of my name, but me myself. A tiny part of me that they took and stored away. ~ Karen Foxlee

There's no point being frightened of the night. ~ Karen Foxlee

There's no way to slow it down now it has begun. ~ Karen Foxlee

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

Big secrets were catastrophic. However hard you try to hide them, they bob to the surface and you must go over them again and again. They are taken out so often they become worn smooth as a river stone. You have to carry them around you like a baby. The secret grows until you feel like you are a skin that covers it, a thin skin, easily split, ripe ~ Karen Foxlee

This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones ~ Karen Foxlee

Ophelia had never been prophesied before. It made her feel annoyed. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

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. ~ Karen Foxlee

Girls are good at running away. It's a fact. ~ Karen Foxlee

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 ~ Karen Foxlee

The cool air Edie speaks of? It drifts down off the mountain, unraveling itself through trees, dipping its fingers in the streams. It comes in through the back door and through the windows cast open for it. The fat possums shiver and return to their meals. It lifts up the months on the calendar and leafs through the newspaper pattern in a pile on the table. It fills up the yellow kitchen and overflows into the hallway and spills into the rooms.
Rose closes her eyes again and smiles. ~ Karen Foxlee

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

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it. ~ Karen Abbott

Don't be afraid of who you're not.. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self. ~ Karen Laffey

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other. ~ Karen Kain

I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out ~ Karen Joy Fowler

Karen shuts the back door and turns to me. "You know I trust you, but please ... "
"Don't get pregnant," I interrupt. "I know, I know. You've been saying that every time you leave for the past two years. I'm not getting pregnant, Mom. Only terribly high and cracked out."
She laughs and hugs me. "Good girl. And wasted. Don't forget to get really wasted. ~ Colleen Hoover

You can't undo the past, but you can learn from it. ~ Karen Witemeyer

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? ~ Karen Scalf Linamen

Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together ~ Karen Traviss

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. ~ Karen Russell

Not everyone has to like you. Not everyone has taste. ~ Karen Salmansohn

Forever, just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math. ~ Karen Russell

Her honor will come to no harm at my hands," Jack said.
"'Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about," Alexander said.
"She's a delicate lass," Hugh added.
"Aye," said Gregor. "A Scottish rose."
"Your tender, delicate rose had me ambushed, knocked unconscious, and forced to wed," Jack ground
out. "Facts you all know, if you've spoken to Hamish."
Dougal grinned, his teeth flashing whitely. "She has the devil's own temper, our Fiona does. ~ Karen Hawkins

You both talk too much," the kid says. "Shut up. Don't make me tell you again."
We shut up, which I find hysterically funny. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says."
"Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark."
"But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real. ~ Karen Harper

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career. ~ Karen O

This was the last party Mrs. Radford would attend in San Francisco. One month later she left on a boat filled with missionaries going to Hawaii. One year later she was one of only seven white women in Edo, Japan. From there she sailed to Russia; from there she made her way to Peking. She died somewhere near Chunking at the age of seventy-four. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

Anyways, it made me think. Who the hell cares if Michael Phelps can swim across a pool at like warp speed? Or that some sixteen-year-old waif can spell the entire Chinese alphabet with a stupid ribbon on a stick above her head? You know who's holding this world together and leaping buildings in a single bound every day? Moms, that's who. ~ Karen Alpert

I was the kind of gal who thought the nightgown drawer was where old T-shirts went to die and ~ Karen Chance

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad. ~ Karen Maezen Miller

I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona. ~ Karen Abbott

Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him. ~ Karen Kingsbury

There are legends. You used to be one." She says coolly, "I am legend. ~ Karen Marie Moning

The neurotic, as long as he must adhere to his illusions about himself, cannot recognize limitations, the search for glory goes into the unlimited. Because the main goal is the attainment of glory, he becomes uninterested in the process of learning, of doing, or of gaining step by step - indeed, tends to scorn it. He does not want to climb a mountain; he wants to be on the peak. Hence he loses the sense of what evolution or growth means, even though he may talk about it. Because, finally, the creation of the idealized self is possible only at the expense of truth about himself, its actualization requires further distortions of truth, imagination being a willing servant to this end. Thereby, to a greater or lesser extent, he loses in the process his interest in truth, and the sense for what is true or not true - a loss that, among others, accounts for his difficulty in distinguishing between genuine feelings, beliefs, strivings, and their artificial equivalents (unconscious pretenses) in himself and in others. The emphasis shifts from being to appearing. ~ Karen Horney

I just smiled and wished hard for the waitress to come back from Cancun or Mazatlan or wherever she was so I could order my martini. ~ Karen MacInerney

If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry. ~ Karen Witemeyer

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. ~ Karen Horney

The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!"

~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black ~ Karen Marie Moning

You don't see the forest for the trees. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Ignoring it makes it irrelevant. No man wants his nudity to be irrelevant. ~ Karen Marie Moning

And now she was just Gabby, currently staying in a dreamy, magnificent castle in Scotland with a Fae prince who did all kinds of non-nasty, non-inhuman things like tearing up lists of names, and returning tadpoles to lakes, and saving people's lives.
Not to mention kissing with all the otherwordly splendor of a horny angel. ~ Karen Marie Moning

When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed. ~ Karen Ehman

Like is an emotion. Emotions" - he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly - "are like holding water. You open your hand, there's nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman. ~ Karen Marie Moning