Цитаты из книги Mr. Fox

Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, I really do believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.

My body, with its pain and mess and hunger — if I could have bribed it to go away, I would have.

The girl tried, several times, to give her love away, but her love would not stay with the person she gave it to and snuck back to her heart without a sound.

The young girl was in love with mystery and secret knowledge. She learnt the names of demons, and summoned them. They never materialised. She didn’t take offence. She wouldn’t have bothered, either, if she were them.

The words didn’t come easily. She put large spaces between some of them for fear they would attack one another.

Dr. Lustucru’s wife was not particularly talkative. But he beheaded her anyway, thinking to himself that he could replace her head when he wished for her to speak. How long had the Doc been crazy? I don’t know. Quite some time, I guess. Don’t worry. He was only a general practitioner.

She couldn’t have let Mr. Fox get away with beheading her, though. That was exactly the kind of behaviour she had set out to discourage.

Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she had spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.