A Fine Romance Quotes

“And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest.

(View from Windermere in the Lake District)”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“The path has a cottage garden on both sides; clumps of old-fashioned flowers ran all over each other: lamb's ear, mint, & rhubarb, roses, forget-me-nots, bleeding hearts & wisteria. I walked very slowly, savoring. At the end of the slate path was the house, very recognizable now... "As nearly perfect a little place as I ever lived in" is how Beatrix described it.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“England reminds me of a quote I saw on a packet of Swiss Miss instant cocoa mix: 'Like a basket of drinkable kittens, wrapped in a blanket, next to a fireplace.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“Do not call anyone "mate" unless you have served on a boat with them.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“Together, Vita (Sackville-West) & Harold (Sir Harold Nicholson) had a passion bigger than them-selves, bigger than their marriage, bigger than everything~their garden. No matter what they did during their lives, the legacy they left for generations to come is pure magic.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“So!, I thought, for the first time, there's more than one path to happiness! I likes that. I thought they were brave. I didn't want to be them, but I liked that they wanted to be them. It opened a world of possibilities in my mind, just the idea that every thing was much bigger than I thought.”
― Susan Branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“Until then (& I really do hate to admit this), I believed that everyone pretty much lived exactly the way we did where I grew up... at Reseda, California, USA. I thought everyone believed the same things, wanted the same things, read the same things, & thought the same things were funny. You grew up, got married, had children, & lived happily ever after. This was the way life worked. Ask Ozzie & Harriet, June & Ward Cleaver, Pollyanna's Aunt, or The Cunningham's. It seemed that's how it was for my parents, how it would be for me, & how it was everyone.
But this couple lived in a way I'd never heard of, or imagined, & yet, it all seemed to work out fine.”
― susan branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside

“Time is such a funny thing; one minute it's forever & the next, it's gone.”
― susan branch, A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside