Australia Quote by Ellen Read

“The sky was soft, a heavenly shade of lavender.”

— Julie Berry

“Before the blue of night meets the pink of sunrise, there is a transition of lavender. It's a gradient of color that stretches its…

— Jarod Kintz

“There's something about being from Maine that you can never let hold of - the pointed firs and feathery pine trees, the wide open…

— Caitlin Shetterly

“Even in its ragged state, the garden is astonishingly beautiful. The untended, untouched look of it--- and the ivy-covered walls that protect it on…

— Meg Donohue

“The wild roses were wide open and brilliant, the blue-eyed grass was in purple flower, and the silvery milkweed was just coming on.”

— Willa Cather

“The wallpaper was, as Morven had promised, pink, with little rosettes trailing up and down, and the bedspread and all the pillows were also…

— Robyn J Pritzker

“Look,' said Sarah leaning forward, 'do you see any green in my eye?' 'Yes,' said Charles with disconcerting promptness: 'emeralds and peridots and jade,…

— M.M. Kaye

“The purple haze of the wych elms; the blue flash of a kingfisher’s wings; the statuesque rightness of the milch cows in that green…

— Ronald Frame

“Screen'd is this nook o'er the high, half-reap'd field, And here till sundown, Shepherd, will I be. Through the thick corn the scarlet poppies…

— Matthew Arnold

“My eyes blinked like a camera shutter clicking through the frames of my life, except the images were mismatched and haphazard: a ragged-looking doll…

— Sarah Jio

“The garden shimmered with candlelight from dozens of sweetly scented beeswax tapers set around to illuminate the space. In the center stood her painting…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out, one stabbing…

— Jack Kerouac