Status Updates From The Rosemary Tree

All right, Miss Goudge, do NOT ruin this beautiful, wonderful book!!! 😠

🥰🥰🥰

😢

John turned hastily away, for he hated visitors, either his own or other people's.
...In fact what it boiled down to was that he was terrified of all well-born, well-dressed, prosperous, good-looking, self assured females between the ages of twenty and seventy-five. 😂😂

😂😂😂

I cannot believe elizabeth goudge's grasp on the brokenness and the beauty of humanity is This Good. no words, head full of ms. giles and ms. o'hara and MICHAEL AND DAPHNE AND JOHN AUGH....... i'm going to cry.

"Ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning?" From what recesses of his memory had that quotation come? The master. What a name to give to those visitations of the darkness. Yet not unsuitable because for most men in these days fear was the master of life.

"It's the tooth. The world seems so abominably wicked when a tooth is still in and so dreadfully pathetic when a tooth's just out. I expect the only really balanced people are the people with dentures." 😂

"For once in a way she was feeling peaceful, and happy, she who was always so depressed and restless. Seeds blow into crannies in the rock, dead-looking brown things hardly larger than grains of dust, and then unbelievably flower into snapdragon and valerian. It was miraculous how such gay things could grow in the rock."

Such a beautiful book already! 😌