“. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . .”
“There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!”
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
“Without the death of winter, there is no rebirth of spring.”
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”
“People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.”