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Fiona Shaw QUOTES

Fiona Shaw QUOTES

1 " From inside the thick of her grief, Lydia read. She read without lifting her eyes...only pausing when the ache in her shoulder or the pins and needles in her foot forced her to lift her eyes from the page, shift the pillows and turn the other way. Then her gaze would fall on the wallpaper with its pattern of roses and she would blink and wonder where in the world she was. Then, as she started to remember, thank God, there was the book, and she would slip under again, a sigh in her throat. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

2 " It was the most exciting sentence I've ever heard," Lydia said. Reaching out, she stroked the back of Jean's hand. "In front of your friends, to call me your love. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

3 " we discovered that some great minds have the same passions, and now look where we are "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

4 " Sometimes he’d get annoyed at it, want to be left alone, wished he’d gone skateboarding, but mostly not. "

― Fiona Shaw , Outwalkers

5 " he put his check to the hive.
"Remember me," he said, and he made his voice smooth as smoke. "Don't wake up, just listen out in your dreams, bees, and you'll hear. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

6 " Jake glanced up at the curtained windows. A boy slept inside one of those rooms. Could be me, he thought. Could be me with the garden and the swing, and a pad with all the games on it, and a mobile, and the Santa Cruz; and him out here, dead parents, scrounging other people’s clothes, on the run. There was the skateboard, leaned up against the porch, like it was the simplest thing in the world to own it. He took a few steps towards it. –Don’t. Poacher’s voice was a whisper. "

― Fiona Shaw , Outwalkers

7 " The damp air eased between sheets tossed and loosened with dreams, kissing uncovered throats, slipping in with unguarded breaths to lie snugly in the lungs and wait for day. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

8 " In the porch of one house Jake saw a skateboard and it made his heart jump: a Santa Cruz, one of the expensive ones. He’d begged for one for years. He looked at the house, its closed curtains. There was a child in there, maybe a boy same age as him, dreaming in a bed, who had a Santa Cruz, "

― Fiona Shaw , Outwalkers

9 " The man went back to reading the news on the screen: ‘Three arrested for virus violation’ … ‘PM hosts Allied Security Talks’, Jake read. "

― Fiona Shaw , Outwalkers

10 " Outside a new dark was falling, a dark Charlie didn't know yet. He walked carefully, wheeling the bike. Like everything else here, the street lamps had bigger kingdoms and the pools of shadow between them fell wider and deeper than he was used. to. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees

11 " Her head burned and her thoughts danced at the edge of her mind like scraps of ash in the heat of a fire. "

― Fiona Shaw , Tell It to the Bees