Branches Quotes

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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and… — Libba Bray
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body… — Lois Lowry
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. — Italo Calvino
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… — Marilynne Robinson
She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought,… — Markus Zusak
Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side… — Jean Webster
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I… — Pablo Neruda
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch… — Leonard Cohen
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like… — Laurie Halse Anderson
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one… — Albert Schweitzer
Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch… — Kazuya Minekura
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly… — Alice Sebold
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence… — Federico Garcia Lorca
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he… — Nancy Farmer
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are… — Muriel Barbery
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself. You can't help… — Sophie Scholl

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