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“I wondered if the owners would mind if I murdered someone in their front yard. A big red-headed someone. He was so full of…

— Karina Halle

“Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.”

— Vita Sackville-West

“Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.”

— Joe Eck

“Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.”

— Victor Hugo

“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me,…

— Beverley Nichols

“Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.”

— F.T. McKinstry

“If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

— Donna Tartt

“This morning Miss Marple lay thinking soberly and constructively of murder, and what, if her suspicions were correct, she could do about it.”

— Agatha Christie

“Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.”

— Melissa Jennings

“When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.”

— Sanober Khan

“He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off…

— Mary Gaitskill