Shelley

“Like a flight of swallows as winter approaches,
Your soul flew away with no hope of return.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

“Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow.”
― 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

“On the day all these photos were taken, none of the men, children, women who posed innocently in front of the camera could have thought that that moment would represent them for all eternity.”
― Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers