Annuals Quote by Stella Gibbons

Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which…

— John Desmond Bernal

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left…

— Charles Dickens

“There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's…

— E.M. Forster

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions. Our heartache poured into one another like water from…

— Alice Sebold

“to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily challenges kept…

— Isabel Allende

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us…

— Laurie Lee

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

— Ellen Glasgow

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That…

— Adam Johnson