The Midnight Dress Quotes

“The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people to stake their claim to a patch of soggy green land, a huge boat, Titanic-size, on the back of a truck.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Girls are good at running away. It's a fact.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“When you are in love, you think nothing will ever be the same but then the tide rushes out and there it is, everything, just as it was.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There is a whole week inside each day.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There's no point being frightened of the night.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Do you know what love is like, Rose? It's like having a sky, a whole sky racing inside you. Four seasons' worth of sky. One minute you are soaring and then you are all thunderclouds and then you are deep with stars and then you are empty.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“The cool air Edie speaks of? It drifts down off the mountain, unraveling itself through trees, dipping its fingers in the streams. It comes in through the back door and through the windows cast open for it. The fat possums shiver and return to their meals. It lifts up the months on the calendar and leafs through the newspaper pattern in a pile on the table. It fills up the yellow kitchen and overflows into the hallway and spills into the rooms.
Rose closes her eyes again and smiles.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“And so it begins.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Tell me I'm here.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Old things can become new things.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“When she dipped her toes in the sea that morning, she broke its smooth olive-green skin. And when she turned, she saw the mountain, looming behind her, sitting sage in its skirt of clouds.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“And already in countless darkened bedrooms, on beds beneath ceiling fans that thump and whir, girls lie dreaming of dresses.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“She won't come back.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There's no way to slow it down now it has begun.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“We can just talk,' he says. Like a boy.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“But later, when he found the note, he realized he was very late and had to run.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Do you promise?' said Edie, which changed things.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Up close Rose can smell her chewing gum breath, her creek-scented hair, the sweat dried out on her white dress.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“They sit close together, knees drawn up to their chins. The smell of the creek on their skin is very strong. Pearl's stomach growls in the darkness and it makes them both laugh again.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“They lie curled on the floor, side by side, smelling of the mountain and the creek. Rose's hair, unbound, has curled in the sun and Pearl winds a strand around her finger in amazement. Closes her eyes. They wake that way, the strand of hair still coiled around Pearl's finger but the sun almost gone.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“Pearl writes with the highlighters, mixing all the colors, big letters, tangerine and lime and lemon and cherry pink. She adds huge exclamation marks and instead of dots there are love hearts above each letter i. It makes Rose feel faintly queasy.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress

“There will be nothing to say something terrible has happened, but they will know it all the same. Nothing will be found. Not a trace of the girl in the midnight dress.”
― Karen Foxlee, The Midnight Dress