Karen Foxlee > Quotes

“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.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“After the kiss some of it still sparkled in the air around her.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“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, The Anatomy of Wings

“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, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“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, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.”
― Karen Foxlee, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“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, The Anatomy of Wings

“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.”
― Karen Foxlee, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“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, The Midnight Dress

“If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“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, The Anatomy of Wings

“Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad and as though he expected more from her.
'And how do you know my name anyways?' she said. 'I never told you it, not once.'
'I heard it once, a long time ago.'
He was full of mysterious sentences like that.”
― Karen Foxlee, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“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, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“Girls are good at running away. It's a fact.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There's no point being frightened of the night.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There is a whole week inside each day.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“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.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“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.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“A glimpse, a little piece of their story, flapping like ribbon in the wind.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“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, The Midnight Dress

“Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast”
― Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings

“I need your help," the boy said, "to save the world.”
― Karen Foxlee, Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

“And so it begins.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“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 Anatomy of Wings

“Tell me I'm here.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“But now we knew. It was a good thing. All of Davey, in all his time upon the earth, was good.”
― Karen Foxlee, Lenny's Book of Everything

“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, The Anatomy of Wings

“Old things can become new things.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress