“as one by one the scents and sounds and names of long-forgotten places come gradually back and beckon to us.”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
“Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured!”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows
“Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
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