64 Quotes by Holly Ringland

Beloved, thou hast brought me manyflowers...... take them, as I used to doThy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.Instruct thine eyes to keep theircolors true,And tell thy soul, their roots are leftin mine. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There has fallen a splendid tearFrom the passion-flower at the gate.She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate;The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;'And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;'The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;'And the lily whispers, 'I wait.'Alfred, Lord Tennyson

On either side of the laneway, rain-soaked bushes burst into a flurry of white flowers. Alice's first breaths were filled with lightning and the scent of storm lilies in bloom.You were the true love I needed to wake me from a curse, Bun, her mother would say to finish the story. You're my fairytale.

Alice would always remember this day as the one that changed her life irrevocably, even though it would take her the next twenty years to understand: life is lived forward but only understood backward. You can't see the landscape you're in while you're in it

Your instincts will always guide you, like the stars.

For Alice, falling in love was noting else but feeling her insides set on fire. The feeling consumed her, as if she'd somehow always known him and had been searching for him just as long. Here he was.

In the end, Alice was surprised by how easily she could do something she was always told she should not. She just had to take a step. First one. Then another.

The only signs she would need to read would be in the sky, rather than the shadows and clouds that passed over her father's face, alerting her to whether he was the monster, or the man who turned a gum tree into a writing desk.

What a lucky girl you are to have found this place and with it your story, Alice. What a lucky girl you are to get the chance to learn and know where you come from and who you belong to.