“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.”
― Betsy-Tacy and Tib
― Betsy-Tacy and Tib
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