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"Faith Fox" Quotes
After her mother's death, infant Faith Fox is taken in by a quirky cast of relatives and villagers in rural England, each coping with their own eccentricities and secrets.
fiction | Published in 1998
Quotes
Faith was a baby of considerable serenity, for all that she had lost her mother before she could know her.
‘It’s all so muddling, isn’t it?’ said Thomasina, ‘When you think about it.’
He was a man who liked order, and life kept refusing to oblige.
Sometimes the best one can do is simply to keep going.
Faith smiled in her sleep as if she dreamed of kindness.
They all muddle through, one way or another, even when the way is lost.
‘You can’t expect people to be logical about babies,’ said Jack.
Home is a shifting thing, like the sea.
Faith had no words but she had presence.
‘We are all, in our way, orphans,’ muttered Andrew.