Shelley

“Don’t judge each day by what you can pick, but by the seeds you sow.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“It’s the words they didn’t say
that make the dead so heavy in their coffins.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“I like giving life. Sowing, watering, harvesting. And starting again every year. I like life just as it is today. Bathed in sunshine. I like being at the essence of things.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“Léonine had long been filling the garden with her presence, as if she had brought the Mediterranean to the little vegetable garden of the cemetery in which she was buried. That day, I knew that she was within each little miracle the soil produced.”
― Valérie Perrin