Fox Quotes

“My mother is lucky she isn’t here right now.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“that every lie I tell her is one she can forgive.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“Her brain has decided I am intolerable.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“with the comprehensive clarity of a man”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“I’m allowed into the ICU for fifteen minutes twice a day,”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“That’s also on brand for my brother.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“entirely on brand for her.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“because Percy Hale has been showing up for me without being asked for years,”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“TriStar Centennial Medical Center.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“The waiting room outside the ICU is the kind of terrible that hospitals specialize in—fluorescent, beige, furnished with chairs designed to prevent sleep, which is either a cruelty or a philosophy, and I cannot tell which.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“He talks easily about his work—tells me about a musician who insisted their greenroom include a gold water bowl for their dog, because the dog had allergies. Fox is quite the storyteller. Well, he did tell me a story about how we were going to be married forever, and I bought it, hook, line, and sinker.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“He asks questions up to a point and then retreats if I don’t volunteer more information. I used to read that as a sign of respect for my autonomy—now, I wonder if it’s disinterest.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“because it has to be very soon or we’ll suddenly be married for two years, and she’s already started to talk about a baby, which I don’t want, not with her, because it will complicate the divorce.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance

“Then she lost the baby. I don’t talk about that. There are no words in my vocabulary that are the right size for the grief I felt. The sorrow of losing a life that I’d already fallen in love with.”
― Maya Alden, Fox: A Short Romance