Haunted-house Quote by Jane Louise Curry

“But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red…

— Julie Otsuka

“garden was inside a white picket fence. Most of the rosebushes had small buds on them. Some had early blossoms. The bushes were planted…

— Ron Roy

“The real strength of the rose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches.”

— Dorcas Kareithi

“How beautiful the house was with its magnolia trees lining the drive, their branches outstretched as if they were beckoning him inside. Rose tipped…

— Ellen Read

“There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice a white…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because thornbushes have roses.”

— Sir John Templeton

“Home is a room dappled with firelight: there are pictures and books. And when the rain sighs, and the acorns fall, there are patterns…

— Mervyn Peake

“Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so…

— Alex Flinn

“The warm afternoon, the garden, the tray of empty glasses on the grass, succeeded in conveying foreboding and dissatisfaction; even the roses seemed to…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Rose sat all alone in the big best parlor, with her little handkerchief laid ready to catch the first tear, for she was thinking…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick,…

— D.H. Lawrence

“There was a big barn and a darling little farmhouse at the end of a drive through the fields. As they got closer Maggie…

— Robyn Carr