Parenting Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“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

“Oh, her beauty--the tender maid! Its brilliance gives light like lamps to one travelling in the dark. She is a pearl hidden in a…

— Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi

“The large strings hummed like rain, The small strings whispered like a secret, Hummed, whispered—and then were intermingled Like a pouring of large and…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“turquoise-and-green cloth that cloaked her body did not soften the rigidity of her frame. Her bright copper hair had been arranged into an elaborate…

— Diane Setterfield

“And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.”

— Heinrich Heine

“You're not making too much of this. You will love her until the stars fall. She looked like a figure in a hand-tinted woodcut…

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

“Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in the distance,…

— Christina Baker Kline

“A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the…

— James Joyce

“Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping paper. Melanie put her arms around the poor, thin body. What is Aunt Margaret…

— Angela Carter

“Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on it one…

— Neil Gaiman

“The Harelip had taken off her heavy shawl and draped it over a headstone. The grave was tilted and covered with moss, the name…

— Hannah Tinti