There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
Elizabeth GoudgeIn my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
Elizabeth GoudgeHe grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: friendship love sunshine
Don't waste hate on pink geranium.
Elizabeth GoudgeGive me the benefit of your assistance during those ablutions that neccessarily, though unfortunatly, invariably follow the excercise of the culinary art.
Elizabeth GoudgeI have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: love marriage knowing-a-person
Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.
Elizabeth GoudgeIn a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: nature seasons trees spring gratitude birds gratefulness musings
Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.
Elizabeth GoudgeThere was a leap of joy in him, like a flame lighting up in a dark lantern. At this moment he believed it was worth it. This moment of supreme beauty was worth all the wretchedness of the journey. It was always worth it. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." It was the central truth of existence, and all men knew it, though they might not know that they knew it. Each man followed his own star through so much pain because he knew it, and at journey's end all the innumerable lights would glow into one.
Elizabeth GoudgeTags: classic
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