Flour & Salt Quotes

“The news print of the birch bark reads out a headline:
“Spring Has Come: Animals and Plants Come Hither and Play.”

A stack of sappy articles are cropping up each day:
“Snowdrops Drop In,” and “Starling’s Wings are Here to Stay.”

The finer print reads: “Alerting All Dormice, Fields Are Soft for Burrows,”
“Fiddleheads Forgo the Frost,”and “Little Creek, No Longer Narrow.”

With every new announcement Spring is pronounced arrived,
The Winter has retreated, and warm Summer’s close behind.

- Ester Straight, Published in the Moriah Gazette”
― Florence Virginia Stephenson, Flour & Salt: A novel

“All across the perfect crust of sparkling white snow were little fleas, hopping and jumping across ice crystals. I sank down on my knees into the snowbank and held my eyes at the surface of the snow. The fleas popped and hopped like carbonated bubbles across the surface of a coke.”
― Florence Virginia Stephenson, Flour & Salt: A novel

“If I were a garden
I’d be one with many weeds”
― Florence Virginia Stephenson, Flour & Salt: A novel