“If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“Like a milk mustache, faint traces of you persist; love leaves evidence.” — Maryrose Wood Love Copy Share Image
“When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won." - Agatha Swanburne” — Maryrose Wood Adversity Copy Share Image
“You’ll find it in the last place you look, so, for heaven’s sake, keep looking until you find it!” — Maryrose Wood Last place Copy Share Image
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs. — Maryrose Wood Business Copy Share Image
“A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on its front. Loveawoo, it said.” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“The girl sounded uncharacteristically bashful as she offered her gift. It was a small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet… — Maryrose Wood Life Copy Share Image
“Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms… — Maryrose Wood Fairy Copy Share Image
“I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love.… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do,… — Maryrose Wood Compassion Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over… — Maryrose Wood Humor Copy Share Image
“Weed Rises to his feet. "Nature," he says softly, "makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that… — Maryrose Wood Beautiful things Copy Share Image
“There is much I do not understand about the way humans think of punishment and forgiveness, and what happens to sinners when… — Maryrose Wood Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone… — Maryrose Wood Good fortune Copy Share Image
One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating… — Maryrose Wood Acquisition Copy Share Image
“Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong… — Maryrose Wood Flower Copy Share Image
“You flesh bodies are so obsessed with goodness, yet no other form of life on earth is capable of such cruelty. You… — Maryrose Wood Desire for power Copy Share Image
“I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry… — Maryrose Wood Family Copy Share Image
“Penelope had read several novels about such governesses in preparation for her interview and found them chock-full of useful information, although she… — Maryrose Wood Books Copy Share Image
“This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to… — Maryrose Wood Hyperbole Copy Share Image
“But was that not the task you set me? To defend the helpless against the strong?" "Indeed it was Master Weed. But… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“A crease of disquiet snakes across his brow. 'Your father plays with fire to gather them together like that. They are too… — Maryrose Wood Fears Copy Share Image
“According to his diary he worked hard and without scruple to discover what he could on his own. Of course, in principle… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“Of course we will send postcards to Nutsawoo. And we shall bring him back a present as well. In fact,' she went… — Maryrose Wood Humor Copy Share Image
“Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.” — Maryrose Wood Anxious Copy Share Image
“Penelope was in favor of new experiences, as long as they did not upset the digestion” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' — Maryrose Wood Academy Copy Share Image
“Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.” — Maryrose Wood Trees Copy Share Image
“They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—” — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“foxglove IN THE oleander RIGHT DOSE moonseed EVERYTHING belladonna IS A POISON love.” — Maryrose Wood Love Copy Share Image