Yorkshire Quotes

“Yorkshire's autumn was as great a gift as Yorkshire's summer. I loved watching the rusting of the leaves while the dales mellowed to shades of ochre, and rose hips and blackberries grew deliciously fat on their branches. The morning mists were mystical and magical to me, and the rose-glow of the evening sun lent the sky a hypnotic light that matched any Cape Town sunset.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

“I am as happy here as I have ever been in my life: Ted and I take a long walk each day up to the moors (It’s generally rainy, or at least overcast) and never have I loved country so! All you can see us dark hills of heather stretching toward the horizon, as if you were striding on top of the world; last night at sunset the horizontal light turned us both luminous pink as we hiked in waterproof boots in the wuthering free wind, starting up rabbits that flicked away with a white flag of tail, staring back at the black-faced, gray furred moor sheep that graze, apparently wild, and with their curling horns looking like primeval yellow-eyed druid monsters. I never thought I could like any country as well as the ocean, but these moors are really even better, with the great luminous emerald lights changing always, and the animals and wildness. Read “Wuthering Heights” again here, and really felt it this time more than ever.

--from a letter to her mother Aurelia Schober Plath, written on 11 September 1956”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“Yorkshire had none of the color I'd known in Cape Town- the vivid pinks and purples of the freesias and arum lilies in the flower sellers' baskets. Yorkshire had none of the fragrant floral perfume, or the tang of salt in the air from the ocean.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret

“The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.”
― Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart

“There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.”
― Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart

“A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.”
― Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart

“Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️”
― Jacqueline Creek, The Girl with the Emerald Brooch: Growing up: 1954 - 1965

“Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know
where ya are we' lasses”
― Gervase Phinn, Trouble at the Little Village School

“The wider moral argument in this text coheres closely with attitudes in the Wilberforce circle towards human nature in the context of slavery.”
― christoper heywood

“Despite the fact that nothing complicates the truth as much as a lie, if the truth is as obvious as it is
inescapable, then the fabrication of its banality could be viewed as an act of benevolence.”
― Daniel Kemp

“I am Vincent Vee, the epitome of elegance, the paragon of perfection, and the most captivating vampire rock star you will ever encounter.”
― Mrs Michelle Rae Lee, Vincent Vee

“It started, as many disasters do, with a long weekend in North Yorkshire.”
― Tom Cartledge, SaddleSore: From England to India

“Harrogate wore its quirks like a badge of honour. Genteel parks. Overpriced tearooms. Pensioners in tartan, and the faint pong of Victorian delusion still wafting from the Royal Pump Room like a sickly memory.”
― Tom Cartledge, SaddleSore: From England to India