Emily From Fox Quotes & Sayings

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them. — Marcel Proust

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. — C. K. Williams

I am almost ashamed to answer,' she said. 'As I have said before, Emily
Fox-Seton has become the lodestar of my existence. I cannot live without
her. She has walked over to Maundell to make sure that we do not have a
dinner-party without fish to-night.'
'She has _walked_ over to Maundell,' said Lord Walderhurst
'after
yesterday?'
'There was not a pair of wheels left in the stable,' answered Lady
Maria. 'It is disgraceful, of course, but she is a splendid walker, and
she said she was not too tired to do it. It is the kind of thing she
ought to be given the Victoria Cross for
saving one from a dinner-party
without fish.'
The Marquis of Walderhurst took up the cord of his monocle and fixed the
glass rigidly in his eye.
'It is not only four miles to Maundell,' he remarked, staring at the
table-cloth, not at Lady Maria, 'but it is four miles back. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. — Lev Grossman

But my father's is closest. (Emily)
A wounded hawk doesn't bed down in a fox's den. (Draven) — Kinley MacGregor

I've been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we're a walking untruth - solely made from love. — Mary Elizabeth

There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. - Rumi — Jaggi Vasudev

Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today. — W. Oscar Thompson

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction. — John Fowles

It's not how long but how well you lived which matters. — Krishna Saagar

Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem. — Mahmoud Abbas

I Know what you meant when you told me she was full of love and brimming over with it. And so innocent that one fears for her. Perhaps we ought not to fear for such people but for ourselves whose experience has taught us not to trust one another or life itself. — Mary Balogh