Julia Kelly > Quotes

“Have you ever loved a place so much that it sunk into your bones?”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Charlie grinned. "You can take the girl out of the garden—"
"But you can't get the dirt out from underneath her nails. I told them I didn't want to move forward with the hiring process," she said.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Sometimes when you are away I think back to the celestial connection that forever binds me to you. The joy that slipped through our fingers led us to where we are now. I hope you do not hate me for having no regrets, because now I have you.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Each new garden is like an unread book, its pages brimming with possibility.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Everything gardeners do is intentional. We create order out of nature. If she called this Celeste's garden, there was a reason,' she said.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“It felt as though all these years she'd been watching her memories from behind glass, and Cynthia had just swung a hammer.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Cynthia swung around in Murray's old desk chair, her sharp, birdlike features pinched with thinly veiled annoyance.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“I do not know if he loves me, and I cannot bring myself to ask because I do not want to know the answer.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“Creating a fantasy of nature is part of the gardener's role.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“She'd spent so much time closing doors behind her, making sure no one had a key. Yet the chaplain seemed determined to pick open each of those locks and let the sunlight stream in again.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“A pool would look well in the center."
"Maybe a sculptural one, different than the water garden."
His cap came off again, but this time he held it between his hands. "It could be a memorial. If someone felt they needed to remember something," Mr. Hillock said.
"The Melcourts would never stand for that."
"The Melcourts never need to know."
"You are a good man, Mr. Hillock.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“A variety called 'Belle Lyonnaise' was to climb over arches at four points of the bridal garden, and Rosa foetida 'Bicolor', 'Souvenir d'Alphonse Lavallé', and 'Rosearie de l'Hay'—a new favorite of mine—would be interspersed with artful casualness throughout the poet's garden, lest we ever forget that love is like a red, red rose.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

“The man had managed to find her a corsage in the middle of rural Warwickshire during a war.”
― Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England