melannen: A flower fairy for a Venus'-Flytrap (lily)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2004-02-25 01:58 pm

spring.

"They are daffodils and lilies and snowdrops. They are working in the earth now--pushing up pale green points because the spring is coming."

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like? You don't see it in rooms if you are ill."

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," said Mary.


--frances hodgson burnett
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2004-02-25 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
"I shall get well! I shall get well!" he cried out. "Mary!
Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and
ever!"


mmmmmmmm.

Anyone reading this who doesn't know what we're quoting at each other, go here NOW. (http://www.literatureproject.com/secret-garden/)
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-02-25 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
"When it looks a bit greenish an' juicy like that, it's wick," he explained. "When th' inside is dry an' breaks easy, like this here piece I've cut off, it's done for. There's a big root here as all this live wood sprung out of, an' if th' old wood's cut off an' it's dug round, and took care of there'll be--" he stopped and lifted his face to look up at the climbing and hanging sprays above him--"there'll be a fountain o' roses here this summer." (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=The%20Nest%20of%20the%20Missel%20Thrush)

Wow, do you have daffodils way up there already?
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2004-02-25 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. It tried to snow yesterday.

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[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2004-02-25 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
mm... I should go wander around Brookside this weekend.. supposed to be up to 60 of those little F thingies..