Books Quote by Martina Cole

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

— Anthony Doerr

A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade;…

— Henry Vaughan

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

— John Burroughs

When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

— Emily Dickinson

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

— Howard Nemerov

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain…

— Ann Wroe

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

— William Henry Maule

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very…

— Dick Cavett

No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will,…

— Rachel Field

“if she thought she'd seen his eyes burn before, it was nothing compared to what they were doing now. Frost had never been so…

— J.R. Ward

“But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.”

— Victoria Logue