Ali Sparkes > Quotes

“Good plan," Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.”
― Ali Sparkes, Frozen in Time

“So – these tabloids? How are they worse?’ said Polly, looking serious. ‘Do – do they print beastly things?’
‘Only if you’re a footballer’s girlfriend or have boobs the size of China,’ giggled Rachel.”
― Ali Sparkes, Frozen in Time

“Cheddar and biscuits? Yoghurt? Milk? Euch! I’m going to turn into a cheesecake!”
― Ali Sparkes, Running the Risk

“trying not to whimper like a girl,”
― Ali Sparkes, Unleashed: Trick Or Truth

“I would go with you,' she said, softly. 'But what makes you think I'd be safer in there than out there?... You're not worried about me, Dax,' she said, a smile touching her face for the first time in days. 'You've just realizes you're going to miss me.”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“O, meneer Eades, mag ik alstublieft weer een pasje zodat ik een konijn kan slachten voor het avondeten? - Lisa”
― Ali Sparkes, Running the Risk

“He's my brother. And even if you hate him, I don't… He's a blood relative!... He wouldn't be caught dead in this place, anyway!' she snapped. 'And I don't blame him!”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“More eBooks from Oxford”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“Het was behoorlijk schrikken om er plotseling achter te komen dat je een vos bent. Het was behoorlijk schrikken om te merken dat je dode spinnen kunt eten (en levende).”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“When you open your mouth and sing - it just makes me want to cry!"
"Me too," said Damon.”
― Ali Sparkes, Dark Summer

“Who'd have thought a journalist would turn out to be such a godsent? - Lisa”
― Ali Sparkes, Going to Ground

“The others will all be so jealous we've found hauntees who talk back! This is so groovy! - Lizzie”
― Ali Sparkes, Thunderstruck

“There's no smoke without fire.”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“I know… your light. - Uncle Wilf”
― Ali Sparkes, Dark Summer

“It's Alice... and Gina!'
Lisa spluttered with horrified amusement. 'You are joking! No! Oh - I have to meet them! I have to meet Gina the Meaner and Alice the Malice… and her dolly-packed chalice!”
― Ali Sparkes, Dowsing the Dead

“Did you not know? How could you not know? You and Lisa? EVERYONE knows it. Everyone has known it for YEARS. - Gideon”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“Dax has fallen out with his best mate Gideon and as if that wasn’t bad enough, everyone at school has started acting weirdly. Is Dax just paranoid or is there something more sinister going on? Dax’s fox instincts have never let him down before—he has to trust them. But before he can help Gideon and the others, he must first overcome his own rising panic and learn more about his shapeshifting powers … The second title from the exciting Shapeshifter series. Strange things are happening—unbelievable occurrences that seem to be following Dax and his friends wherever they go.”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“The word seemed ridiculous. Lisa couldn't be a 'girlfriend'. She was much, much more than that. Whatever happened, even if they never shared another kiss, she was so much more.”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“17 Dax began to wonder how he’d ever lived without Cola Club. Now that he’d found the key to controlling his shapeshifting, he felt more and more part of the college. In the company of people who cared about him, he worked happily at his studies, and for the first time began to find himself among the top students. It still amazed him that he—and all the other students—could continue to study in the midst of almost continuous reminders of their incredible powers.”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“Tomorrow... we must eat more lunch. - Alisha”
― Ali Sparkes, Thunderstruck

“Dax was only five when he agreed with himself to stop expecting much of people; even those who said they loved him.”
― Ali Sparkes, Shapeshifter: Finding the Fox, The

“She is a brat sometimes, I admit! But she's also brilliant and clever and brave and you can just stop talking about her like that! - Dax, about Lisa”
― Ali Sparkes, Dowsing the Dead

“Oh, brilliant! I sound like a healer now. Sorry, Mia, but you know I don't do wifty-wafty!'
Mia smiled. 'No - wifty-wafty's doing you though,' she countered, smartly.”
― Ali Sparkes, Going to Ground

“Caroline felt the hairs on her arms and shoulders begin to prickle. 'OK, Alice Jones... and why would your brother need to fly?'
'Because he's Dax Jones. And if he can't fly… he'll die.”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“Several of his Development sessions with Tyrone, in which the two of them got to have mind-moving contests or go outside for wildlife walks, had been hijacked now. Instead Gideon had been forced to sit in a darkened room with the increasingly irritable Lisa. Holding her hand. Dax”
― Ali Sparkes, Dowsing the Dead

“So… this bike loan. How long?'
'A couple of days probably,' she said. 'Oh... and I'll need my old leathers and helmet, if you haven't flogged them. And a pair of good binoculars.”
― Ali Sparkes, Feather and Fang

“Iedereen zei altijd dat je verandert naarmate je groter wordt, dacht Dax. Je krijgt haar op je armen, en een andere stem. Maar niemand had ooit tegen hem gezegd: 'Enne... soms verander je in een vos.”
― Ali Sparkes, Finding the Fox

“I mean – my mum and dad often talk about how great it would be to put us to sleep. In long car journeys mostly. They say they’d like a glass screen to slide up between the front seats and the back seat, and some kind of gas to pump in, so as soon as we went “Are we nearly—” they could freeze us. Five hours later when the car got to Cornwall they’d just hit the defrost button and we’d go “—there yet?”. – Ben”
― Ali Sparkes, Frozen in Time

“O ja, zeg, o wauw, ze is echt fantástisch. En zo leuk! Zo aardig en grappig... Zeg nou maar niet dat het jou niet is opgevallen. Ze wil jou ook altijd beetpakken. Ze wil jou als donzig knuffelbeest hebben!'
'Je bent toch niet jaloers, hè?' vroeg Dax dapper. Meteen boog hij zijn hoofd om een klap van Lisa te ontwijken.
'Dat zou je wel willen, Dax!”
― Ali Sparkes, Running the Risk

“The satellite falling to earth changed life forever for Ben and Rachel Corder. It was catastrophic.
One day their world was full of colour and light and sound – and the next, in just a few terrible seconds – it was grey and swarms of insects engulfed it.”
― Ali Sparkes, Frozen in Time