Catherine Fox > Quotes

“Dear Lord, please bless Freddie May.’ This is uttered as though ‘bless’ were some kind of synonym for ‘visit hideous plagues upon’. But there. He has done it. He has prayed for his enemy.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“We do genuinely love one another, even though we find the Peace an awkward business.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“The moon has seen it all. The horsemen riding. The end not coming. Another June with rain and roses. If we are spared to a ripe old age, we might live to see a thousand iterations of the lunar cycle. Same old, same old. And same new, same new. Each time another chance. For all that time’s arrow flies one way, while we live and breathe there’s another chance.”
― Catherine Fox, Tales from Lindford

“He would like to hear the archbishop of Canterbury cry, ‘Unlock the doors!’ and General Synod breaking into song, and the song flooding the entire C of E. But that’s not going to happen any time soon, is it?”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“A stunned absence of tree.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“Let’s have some sex. Or the next best thing in Anglican circles: baking.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“Acts of kindness: the waybread of pilgrims. When the road is rough and steep (or for my more Catholic readers, when the night is dark, and you are far from home) the kindness of fellow travellers may keep despair at bay.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“He is not a Conservative Evangelical, so he is not compelled to school his prayers into words.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“Some of those who have given up alcohol have discovered that they took up grumpiness at the same time.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“Hush that fairground in your soul.”
― Catherine Fox, Unseen Things Above: (Lindchester Chronicles 2)

“I am every dead thing, thinks Jane.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“But for the general population next Sunday is simply Mothers’ Day. Or Mother’s Day? Oh dear. Where should that apostrophe go? Purists brush this dilemma testily aside because it’s Mothering Sunday. They would no more say Mother’s Day than they would split an infinitive or drop litter. Such people make up ninety-eight per cent of the population of the UK’s Cathedral Closes.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)

“Get the army in. Curfews. Crackdowns. Go and sin no more.”
― Catherine Fox, Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1)