After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Ever… - Elizabeth George Speare
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Ever…
- Elizabeth George Speare
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. - Elizabeth George Speare
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible! - Elizabeth George Speare
How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree. - Elizabeth George Speare
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
There is no escape if love is not there - Elizabeth George Speare
There is no escape if love is not there
There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had d… - Elizabeth George Speare
There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had d…
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break. - Elizabeth George Speare
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. - Elizabeth George Speare
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him - Elizabeth George Speare
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
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