Ernestine Manowarda

“My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child subject still to her power but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“When you drop your desire in consciousness as a seed, confident that it shall appear in its full-blown potential, you have done all that is expected of you. To be worried or concerned about the manner of their unfoldment is to hold these fertile seeds in a mental grasp and, therefore, to prevent them from really maturing to full harvest.”
― Neville Goddard, Your Faith is Your Fortune

“For I shall bring you crimson leaves
And rippling wheat in golden sheaves;
A cache of berries, red and sweet,
And dappled deer on silent feet."

- Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby, Americanus: A Masque in Three Parts”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue