Like a milk mustache, faint traces of you persist; love leaves evidence.
If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.
Weed Rises to his feet. “Nature,” he says softly, “makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that nature could make a girl so beautiful.
Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.
When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that’s when you know you’ve won.” – Agatha Swanburne.
If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.
They disrupted the performance.
Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England.
All books are judged by their covers until they are read.
Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, ‘Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.’