Nettie-sparrow Quote by Ellen Herrick

“The girls seemed unconcerned and went about their days, each as lovely in their own way as the flowers they tended. Sorrel's black hair…

— Ellen Herrick

“She leaned in to smell the apricot-tinted rose whose petals had just unfolded into a ruffled cup. The scents of lemon, myrrh, and peach…

— Ellen Herrick

“Sorrel watched fascinated as Delphine set out a row of glass bowls and filled them with all the ingredients for her meal. On one…

— Ellen Herrick

“Patience drifted in the garden, her dress draping softly off one shoulder and her hair falling across her back like blood in the shadows.…

— Ellen Herrick

“Like their mother, Honor Sparrow, dead now for twenty-some years- gone on the very day her youngest daughter, Impatiens, arrived- the sisters had all…

— Ellen Herrick

“When everyone arrived at the formal garden, lunch had been laid out on the terrace by unseen hands. Bowls of strawberries and frosty buckets…

— Ellen Herrick

“Just as Patience read the people in Granite Point, searching for the troubled bits in their bodies or hearts, and Nettie collected the harvest…

— Ellen Herrick

“Years passed with nothing to show in a land once so enchanted that bees and butterflies slept safe in the blossoms after their nectar…

— Ellen Herrick

“The Sparrow Sisters' roses still bloomed on New Year's Day, their scent rich and warm even when snow weighted their petals closed. When customers…

— Ellen Herrick

“People came from far and wide to see the Italian Gardens and buy a honeycomb or damson jam in the farm shop. The wool…

— Ellen Herrick

“It was as Frank said: the Sparrow Sisters Nursery had quite a reputation. Sally told Henry about the Nursery that was now a landmark…

— Ellen Herrick

“Andrew sifted through the photos: lush, sprawling gardens of herbs and flowers, others dotted with crabapple trees, woodbine, and hawthorn- not that he could…

— Ellen Herrick