marge sutcliffe

“stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ...”
― Terry Bisson, They're Made Out of Meat

“What do sunflowers talk about after dusk
when the wind goes down and the moon comes up?”
― David Etter