Pauline Fisk > Quotes

“Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.”
― Pauline Fisk, Midnight Blue

“This could be a dream,' Phase II said, 'Not one that wakes you up in a panic, but one that makes you never want to wake up at all”
― Pauline Fisk, The Secret of Sabrina Fludde

“Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth turned the dark skin of the fiery balloon midnight blue. They flew straight up. Above them, the sweet, clear music of the lonely pipe called to them. Then the smooth sky puckered into cloth-of-blue and drew aside. They passed straight through...”
― Pauline Fisk, Midnight Blue

“Down the corridor, the staircase was decorated with paintings of them all, her and Mum and Grandad and countless other similar faces that stared out at her and reminded her, as she climbed down the stairs, that men and women may come and go, be born and die, but the family goes on and stays the same forever.”
― Pauline Fisk, Midnight Blue