Children Quote by Priyadarshini

“She breathed deeply, and for full ten minutes stood there, like a watered plant drawing up the food of its vitality. The scent was…

— John Galsworthy

“Running her fingertips across the complicated edging of the desk, she discovered that the curlicues actually formed a vine. And there were dates inscribed…

— J.R. Ward

“Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Every fruit that bedecked Cecile’s gaily-dressed stall had been grown on her own holding.”

— Carol Drinkwater

“The sun danced through the small leaves of the oak, turning them saffron and dappling the blankets with the ghosts of baby leaves. Ewan…

— Eloisa James

“Then it was suggested that, in honor of the people who were giving our company so much trouble, I stop by an Edible Arrangements…

— Gina Damico

“And after I told my six-year-old, grandma died in the accident, after tears and questions she suggested, maybe now is a good time to…

— Kimiko Hahn

“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had…

— Rupert Thomson

“Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt—the shorter the sleeve, the greater the…

— Sadiqua Hamdan

“All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her…

— Thomas Hardy

“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she…

— Dacia Maraini

“The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight…

— Jody Shields