"After the keen still days of September, the……" — Elizabeth George Speare
"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."
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Elizabeth George Speare
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14 Quotes by Elizabeth George Speare
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All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not…
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There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not…
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I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it…
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She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter…
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Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled.…
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How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!
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What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...
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Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the…
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From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
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There was something irresistible about popcorn.
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The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
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There is no escape if love is not there
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