Garden Quote by Sebastian Barry

“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies…

— Lauren DeStefano

“And sometimes an old woman, tiny and bent, who wore an apron and had pale green eyes and was the frequent stopping block to…

— Kristin Cashore

“Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was…

— Ouida

“Victoria spent most of the morning in the town house's private garden. It was a cool, humid day, the sky liberally laced with clouds,…

— Lisa Kleypas

“When there was a summer of bad bush fires, all that was left of the house was the brick recess that had held the…

— Olga Masters

“in dawdling through the greenhouse, where the loss of her favorite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of…

— Jane Austen

“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting…

— A Cruel Harvest

“She sat on the little iron garden seat in the clearing at the top and looked down at the strange garden of her mysterious…

— Kate Morton

“We blended and look to what it has brought us. I planted lilies on your grave. The rain is already splattering them with dripping…

— Carmen Dominique Taxer

“The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed, And I am…

— William Blake

“The townhouse was in a community called Waterview, a pretty green place with a common that had a gazebo and a fountain. The homes…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“The undulating terrain was cloaked in lush abundance, the vineyards like garlands of deep green and yellow, orchards and farms sprouting here and there,…

— Susan Wiggs