Undercover Quotes

“Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“I’d thought he was stars and then I’d thought he was a fox. I had thought I’d been alone, but I hadn’t.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Fox-Trot

By the stream the fox and she-fox stood
Nose to nose beneath the stars
Dancing the music of the woods.

The deer rapped a beat with their hooves,
The ravens sang from raven hearts
As by the stream the fox and she-fox stood.

The great owl called as a great owl would,
The squirrels all shimmied in the dark,
Dancing the music of the woods.

Then from the north a fierce wind blew
And broke the starry dance apart
By the stream where the fox and she-fox stood.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Beauty is the worst kind of lie.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover

“When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.”
― Beth Kephart, Undercover