Seven Summer Nights Quotes

“If we wait around to have peace in our hearts, love and goodwill to all men, we’ll never get anything done. The peace-on-Earth part will never happen. So I suggest that we do our best to mend breaches, forgive where we can, and beyond that—don’t wait.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“If we wait around to have peace in our hearts, love and goodwill to all men, we’ll never get anything done. The peace-on-Earth part will never happen. So I suggest that we do our best to mend breaches, forgive where we can, and beyond that—don’t wait. Labour at it like any other task. Because it is a task, and it’s hard.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“He liked to stay a long way away from his body if he could, its various needs and treacheries exhausting him.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“He was still damp from his bath, his skin warm as a greenhouse nectarine’s and just as fine. Archie wanted to bite him for his juice.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“Your sermon was very good. I... couldn’t help but notice that you never once mentioned God.” “Ah. That’s right. I don’t believe in him anymore.” “Isn’t that something of an obstacle for a vicar?” “You have no idea.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“Come on, Rufus. Join us. I have a kid, a dog, a warrior housekeeper and a part-time madwoman. I just need an archaeologist to complete my collection.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“I think,” he said softly, “that sometimes people find themselves where they ought to be, even when it’s the last place in the world they imagined.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“Rufus stopped in the patch of sunlight in front of the altar. His own earthly fate kept leading him to this place. A stray vision touched him—the life of a normal man, who one day might hope—assume the right, almost—to stand here with a chosen companion.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“His family had been typical Anglicans, darkening church doorways only for baptisms, marriages, funerals and the occasional midnight Mass. Even alone here, he wasn’t quite sure how to behave. Was some gesture necessary, some acknowledgement of deity?”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“He couldn’t imagine anyone at all—not even himself, and he dropped into his recurring fantasy that his heart had stopped at Fort Roche, and all his experiences since had been a kind of afterlife, a haunting.”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights

“You don’t think about overturning your whole life because of someone you just met.”
“Why not, if the someone makes my heart turn inside out every time I look at him? If all I can think about is touching him again, and having him touch me?”
― Harper Fox, Seven Summer Nights