“The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.” — Karen Foxlee Adventure Copy Share Image
“Our house was like sleeping beauties palace after the enchanted spell is cast” — Karen Foxlee Enchanted Copy Share Image
“I'm really disappointed about how you've turned out," shouted Mum like Beth was a slightly burnt biscuit.” — Karen Foxlee Beth Copy Share Image
“A glimpse, a little piece of their story, flapping like ribbon in the wind.” — Karen Foxlee Glimpse Copy Share Image
“Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its… — Karen Foxlee Sadness Copy Share Image
“The tree seemed very sad to be involved in such a thing and it hung its dark head over them.” — Karen Foxlee Dark Copy Share Image
“Do you know what love is like, Rose? It's like having a sky, a whole sky racing inside you. Four seasons' worth… — Karen Foxlee Love Copy Share Image
“I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on… — Karen Foxlee Eagle Copy Share Image
“If we knew everything would change we would have turned back but we didn't know. Thats how things happen. Especially sunny days… — Karen Foxlee Change Copy Share Image
“She was running out of the room as fast as she could, with the sword raised before her. She called back to… — Karen Foxlee Karen-foxlee Copy Share Image
“When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The… — Karen Foxlee Fantasy Copy Share Image
“It was only a little piece of knowledge but it felt as shiny and solid as a new twenty-cent piece in my… — Karen Foxlee Intriguing Copy Share Image
“The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a… — Karen Foxlee Main street Copy Share Image
“All those days had been removed, simply and precisely, whole weeks brimming with cloudless blue skies neatly severed and discarded. We needed… — Karen Foxlee Reality-dreams Copy Share Image
“Wizards, she thought, when she gained her composure. What good were they if they couldn't tell you how to do stuff, if… — Karen Foxlee Wizard Copy Share Image
“But across the sea was this kingdom, and it was here I met the King," he said. "And the Snow Queen," said… — Karen Foxlee Karen-foxlee Copy Share Image
“The cool air Edie speaks of? It drifts down off the mountain, unraveling itself through trees, dipping its fingers in the streams.… — Karen Foxlee Possums Copy Share Image
“Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad… — Karen Foxlee Ago Copy Share Image
“And you might think a name is just a name, nothing but a word, but that is not the case. Your name… — Karen Foxlee Essence Copy Share Image
“Big secrets were catastrophic. However hard you try to hide them, they bob to the surface and you must go over them… — Karen Foxlee Secret Copy Share Image
“Before everything happened I wished i had double voice box like a song bird so I could sing two songs at once,… — Karen Foxlee Dreaming Copy Share Image
“If i could have sung it would be a very sad song.” — Karen Foxlee Feelings-of-weakness Copy Share Image
“This is because secrets are terrible things. Even the simplest ones” — Karen Foxlee Secret Copy Share Image
“Sudden singing was the only type I really missed. When sudden singing happened it came out of the blue and made me… — Karen Foxlee Love of life Copy Share Image
“Everything that she saw glowing during the day seemed tarnished beside the light that was at the heart of the evening. the… — Karen Foxlee Beauty-in-everything Copy Share Image
“The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made… — Karen Foxlee Longing Copy Share Image
“The cicadas were singing a song. It was a one-noted, one-worded; The words sounded like "please". They were singing and singing and… — Karen Foxlee Cicadas Copy Share Image
“A rumor grows, there in the first evening shadows, and gathers speed. A patchy, slippery, taffeta rumor. She was wearing a dress.… — Karen Foxlee Blue dress Copy Share Image