A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.