Fruit trees Quote by Julia Glass

“This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.”

— Robin McKinley

“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.”

— Kate Atkinson

“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for…

— Joyce Lankester Brisley

“She smelled of home...as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.”

— Celeste Ng

“Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you…

— Herman Koch

“Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she’d take a memory or two…

— Ari Berk

“She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.”

— Claire Vaye Watkins

“Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way,…

— Louise Fitzhugh

“I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted…

— Graham Greene

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“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

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would…

— Sage Steadman