Philippa Foxx > Quotes

“There are innumerable people I will happily do something with, but a limited number with whom I can joyfully do nothing.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry

“I remember once, at another wedding, probably in that same hectic summer, an awful man—somebody's uncle or somesuch—had kept touching all us girls' bottoms. He had made the mistake of touching mine, and I had told him, loudly, that if he did it again, I would smack him right then and there in front of everybody. So, to me, it had been a fair cop when, the next time he had touched my bottom, I had slapped his face so hard that his false teeth had flown out, and been lost under a table until the next morning.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry

“I have counselling and stuff. It doesn't affect me as badly now, and I've learned that being around the right people can be just as cathartic as therapy—people who build you up, you know? You're one of those people, so you deserve to know that...you're fixing me too, in a way.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry

“Not only had Viola fit in a blow-dry for herself, but also a proper haircut for me, at incredibly short notice, with, she assured me, her second favourite hairdresser. But, as her first was based in a small suburb of Florence, that couldn't be helped.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry

“No one ever looks bad with a book. Other book people know that it's like carrying another universe around with you that you could dive into at any moment. A powerful thing.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry

“As I walked away, I quickly turned to look back at him, secretly hoping he was watching me leave. But he was already walking away in the opposite direction, eyes front. Maybe I hadn't left as much of a mark on him as he had on me.
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Try as I might, I just couldn't stop thinking about her.”
― Philippa Foxx, Solo in Cider C**ntry