Bea Goode-Parson

“Happily, Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening, with all the attendant satisfactions of muscular labor and beautiful unfoldings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“[A]s with all His Majesty's ships, you shall find yourself living amongst an odd cabal of both rogues and gentlemen. Be clever, Henry. Model yourself upon the gentlemen.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“For one who grew to manhood believing himself to be an orphan," Eleanor said, "you are surprisingly familiar with the weeds found in family gardens."
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"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Cruel as the Grave

“[T]his is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation on wings, while you arrive steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things