Drake Hall Quotes

“All this time I’ve been wanting to learn how to cure diseases, and I’ve been completely ignoring the people who suffer from them.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Courage is love defying fear.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“How strange to grow up like that, a different person than what one thought.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“It takes practise,” Mother admitted. “But it helps if you want to play two parts of the same duet.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“I wanted those who stayed to stay out of love, because there was beauty here, too, and beautiful things that were worthy of protection. Surely, that would be true strength.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Yesterday I had fancied myself becoming a character from a fairy tale. Now I discovered I already was one.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“I raised my eyes to his, and for once, I didn’t try to dispel the tension between us. My heart beat strangely. I felt like I was standing on the edge of the river that ran through the Dale, the water surging past my feet. Ought I to cross it? Ought I to cross to his side? If I didn’t yet love him, might I allow myself to try? Might I step at least onto the first stepping stone, and see what happened then?”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Shall I get the brandy?” she asked. “I think I need something stronger.” “Tea, then,” she said grimly, “and cake, I think.” “Such recklessness in one so young! But yes. Most definitely.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“But wait, could the someone be whistling ‘God Save the Queen’? This reassured me somehow.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“I looked at the maimed dragon on her lap. Simon had taken it as a metaphor for his mother and her crushed hopes. But it could just as well be him. I wanted to cry. These families! Why did they go on doing this?”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“I expect it might take a little time, Gwen,” I said softly. “To stop being afraid, after all those years.” Our eyes met and I felt her face relax a little, as if I’d given her my approval to allow the wounds time to mend.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Most men seem to want one to…well…” “Tend their stall at the charity bazaar?” Mother suggested, her voice a little wry. “Yes, exactly! And I’ve just told you how that makes me feel.” “What about Simon? Does he have a charity bazaar stall that wants tending?”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“He seemed in an agony of discomfort. I wondered why he thought it so important for me to hear this that he braved the pain at disclosing it.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Perhaps there was hope for the orphans and the wanderers after all, if a child like Una could stand taller than her own fear and welcome one.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“You were afraid of your father, weren’t you?” I asked. It suddenly all made so much more sense: Una’s fear, Gwendolyn’s fear, Violet’s cheerful conviction that violence and death lurked around every corner. “Yes. I was. I never thought about it that way. But now you say it, I think I was always at least a little afraid.” She said this almost wonderingly. “When it’s there all the time, one doesn’t realise it—quite. Like a bird who's never known anything but a cage, I suppose”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Gwendolyn was the most reluctant, but she was also the most persuadable person among us. I was reminded of Helena’s words. Easily influenced. This made me determined to be more patient to bring out her views.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Listen, a man like your father will brave anyone and anything in the cause of what’s right. But to ask for something for himself, something that he alone wants and needs, ever so desperately… He wouldn’t lift a finger. I simply made it terribly obvious that I wanted and needed him just as much as he needed me. And then—well, no one could stop him.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“If you both want to play the same piece, you fight over it. And if you want to play quite different pieces of music, you lose each other a bit. But if you want to play two parts of a whole, you help each other, and you make something you couldn’t have made, all on your own.” She dimpled. “And of course, you must try very hard not to elbow one another while you are playing, though it will happen from time to time.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“I was slightly taken aback by the way he said my name. Very carefully, as if he was speaking the name of a saint at her shrine.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall

“Gwendolen didn't laugh often, but when she did, it was striking gold.”
― Christina Baehr, Drake Hall