The Fox Inheritance Quotes

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.
When nothings left, maybe you can reach for something that no one knew existed.
Or maybe we became something new.
Maybe we made it exist.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“Our fingers unlace so slowly that I am certain some part of me has been left behind on her fingertips.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“Jenna reached over and held one of my hands, Kara held the other, and I felt like the universe was holding us all.
For that night, maybe just for that magic moment, it all seemed to make so much sense, like the thousand puzzle pieces of my life were all in place and I knew the How and Why of all things. It was one of those moments that I was sure would stay impressed on me forever because it was real and true. It was as tangible as the blanket beneath me. I felt lik I had touched something, something as big as the universe, and it had touched me back.
I didn't know that even a big moment like that could be snuffed out in a matter of days by packing to go home, by the wrong teacher on the wrong school schedule, or by my uncle getting his brains blown out at a traffic stop.
But all that just made Kara and Jenna brighter stars in my sky. I had no way of knowing that, in a matter of weeks, even those stars would be snuffed out.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“The human race has always found a group to marginalize--every culture, every time, every race.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance

“We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choices we make.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance