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“His voice in my ear. It did interesting things to me. It curved my back and parted my lips. I felt lazy and feline, and he wasn’t even in the room.”

Book:Mr. Fox

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Mr. Fox

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“In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….”

Humor Hope

Book:The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

Source: The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

“She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.”

Reserved Recluse Antisocial Helen Oyeyemi Misanthropic Mr Fox

Book:Mr. Fox

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“His eyes were very bright; they'd been like that since he'd begun talking about his subject. He looked like someone in love. Well, in love the way people were in old movies.”

Love Passionate In Love Interests Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox Old Movies

Book:Mr. Fox

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“Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.”

Invisible Obscure Invisibility Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

Book:Mr. Fox

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“Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.”

Hindsight Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

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“Soy mala. Papá ya me ha avisado al respecto; sé el riesgo que corro cuando busco defectos en la gente en lugar de algo que apreciar. Es como tener arenilla en los ojos. Cada vez ves menos de la persona que tienes delante y más la arenilla de tu ojo. Ya lo capto.”

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Book:Boy, Snow, Bird

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“What would I do in such a place? Die, I expect.”

Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

Book:Mr. Fox

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“She knows her place, she sure does know her place. There's something ghostlike about this girl . . .”

Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

Book:Mr. Fox

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“The night was very stark, alternate streams of town cars and chequered taxicabs, blaring horns busily staking claims—here is the road and here is the sidewalk. But the road looked so much livelier, what if I tried the road?”

Description Traffic Suicidal Reckless Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox

Book:Mr. Fox

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“Miss Foxe's other passion was fairy tales. She loved the transformations in them. Everybody was in disguise, or on their way to becoming something else. And all was overcome by order in the end. Love could not prevail if the order of the tale didn't wish it, and neither could hatred, nor grief, nor cunning. If you were the first of three siblings, then you were going to make a big mistake, and that was that. If you were the third sibling, you couldn't fail.”

Storytelling Disguise Fairy Tales Literary Tropes Helen Oyeyemi Mr Fox Transformations

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