Frances O'Roark Dowell Quotes

• Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Beautiful, Stars, Cutting

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “Where I'd Like To Be”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Relationship, Dark, Faces

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “The Secret Language of Girls”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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