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

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

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

- Elizabeth George Speare

There is no escape if love is not there

- Elizabeth George Speare

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

- Elizabeth George Speare

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

- 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.

- Elizabeth George Speare

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take yo…

- Elizabeth George Speare