The Garden Intrigue Quotes

“There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know...' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping. Even in her own head, her tongue ran ahead of her brain. It propelled her into all sorts of absurd situations. Elopements. Scandals. This.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“From far across the sea I come,
Through fire, frost,and blazing sun,
That you might, with your own fair hand,
Enjoy the bounties of my land
- Emma Delagardie and Augustus Whittlesby
Americanus, A masque in three parts”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“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

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue