“Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.” YearsLastsBeautifulGirlSweetSpringGardenRiversTownsDesperateThrowingFragranceRiceDazzlingCanopyAzaleas Book:The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.” ThinkingWorldNeedsChildrenBookEnoughHomeRunningGirlFightingEvilFoundStrongBornSecretCreativeHonestSmartGardenFoolishGood And EvilDragonsMuseumsRunning AwaySpySlidesStraightforwardNew FriendsAway From HomeSecret Garden Author:Jesmyn Ward
“Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.” GirlWomenGardenRoseQueensRosebuds Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson