11 quotes found
“It came out sparkling like liquid sky.”
“Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.”
“She leaned out of the window slow and sleepy, and the light came through her nightdress like sand through a sieve.”
“Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things”
“This tiny, white-washed Infants' room was a brief but cosy anarchy. In that short time allowed us we played and wept, broke things, fell asleep, cheeked the teacher, discovered things we could do t...”
“The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had tw...”
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we wont see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days ...”
“Me dad planted that tree, she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great beech filled at least half the sky and shook shadows all over the house.Its roots clutched the slo...”
“She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chim...”
“Granny Trill and Granny Wallon were traditional ancients of a kind we won’t see today, the last of that dignity of grandmothers to whom age was its own embellishment. The grandmothers of those days...”
“Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window.The great beech filled at least half the sky and shook shadows all over the house.Its roots clutched the sl...”
