Acacia⭐️

“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“For Beatrice, when we first met,
I was lonely, and you were pretty.
Now I am pretty lonely.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“No congregants but foxes, no pews but beds of nettle.”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent