“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
“The aim of forest garden design is to make the relationships as co-operative as possible, while acknowledging that very few plants will yield quite as much as they would if they were living alone. It is the cumulative yield of all the plants living on the same piece of land that makes forest gardens productive, not the high yield of individuals.”
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.”
“Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.”