Prince of Foxes Quotes

“Loneliness is something you get used to, until you no longer recognise it as something that needs fixing. You simply are lonely, and that is that.”
― H.L. Macfarlane, Prince of Foxes

“The advancements made in human medicine, and human technology, and human ingenuity, meant that humans were beginning to forget what it felt like to fear 'otherness'. They believed themselves above tales of faeries, and magic in general, though Lachlan knew there were humans capable of magic, too.”
― H.L. Macfarlane, Prince of Foxes

“All her life Sorcha had the rules of names drilled into her. Do not call a person by their first name if you are not familiar with them. Take your husband’s surname when you marry and leave your own behind. Bear a son to pass on his father’s name. Give your children names full of luck, strength, wisdom and beauty, for they would need such traits when they grew up.”
― H.L. Macfarlane, Prince of Foxes

“When someone has wakened to what is really there is that person free of the chain of consequences and I answered yes and with that I turned into a fox and I have been a fox for five hundred lives Fox Sleep (W. S. Merwin; 1992)”
― H.L. Macfarlane, Prince of Foxes

“Loneliness is something you get used to until you no longer recognize it as something that needs fixing you simply are lonely and that is that”
― H.L. Macfarlane, Prince of Foxes