Bare branches Quote by Elizabeth Speller

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full…

— Robert W. Chambers

“The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's no one to ask.…

— Charles Simic

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

— John Banville

“Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked…

— R.D. Ronald

There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in…

— Brunonia Barry

“Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide oak -…

— Nina LaCour

“Gods? There is but one God now, child, and I am no more than a wind through bare branches.”

— Katherine Arden

“She was too thin, her face all sharp bones and pale skin, tinged blue from lack of sunlight. Ugly, like him. Her eyes were…

— Stefan Bachmann

“Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window,…

— Clive Barker

“Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the…

— Leslye Walton