Bartering Quote by Sharon Kay Penman

“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak in front…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning. She stood by the cooker now…

— Niall Williams

“Never again could he see a dogwood blossom or eat a fish without thinking of her.”

— Joanna Jordan

“She saw him pause to watch it, going still with his hand on a stem and his other holding a seed head. And she…

— Nora Roberts

“Winter was fading and the tender touch of spring had caressed the earth, leaving its gift of new blossoms in delicate green. He”

— Kate Danley

“Springtime, she thought, before the heat comes and crushes the leaves into pulp and withers the petals off the flowers.”

— Cassandra Clare

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells…

— Paul McCartney

“Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is…

— Victor Hugo

“...watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood…

— Virginia Woolf

“I can give you the love I feel that was slowly kindled and cultivated, just like the flowers you tend.”

— Christi Caldwell

“He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air. He…

— Andrew M. Greeley

“and she was so simply his love, his girl, watching him approach as if she were memorizing him and his walk and those flowers…

— Dennis Lehane