As you know I read South Riding this year and there were so many lovely Christmas quotes that I've decided to have a week of South Riding Christmas quotes to truly get in the festive spirit. Let's start with the gift of flowers.
'On the wet pavement women stood selling flowers in odd-shaped curving baskets; chrysanthemums, vivid dyed crimson leaves, holly, tight little bunches of scarlet tulips and roses in buds hard as porcelain.
She stopped before a basket of red and yellow rosebuds. 'Oh,' she thought, 'I must have some for Pattie.' Winifred Holtby South Riding
'On the wet pavement women stood selling flowers in odd-shaped curving baskets; chrysanthemums, vivid dyed crimson leaves, holly, tight little bunches of scarlet tulips and roses in buds hard as porcelain.
She stopped before a basket of red and yellow rosebuds. 'Oh,' she thought, 'I must have some for Pattie.' Winifred Holtby South Riding
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How lovely - I'm sure you will have me re-reading South Riding before the week is out.
ReplyDeleteAs to flowers, this may sound strange but I always associate daffodils with Christmas, because as a child I remember seeing the first daffodils coming over from the Isles of Scilly towards the end of December.
Fleur - Yes it would make a lovely Christmas re read. I love how our memories & connections are so vivid, and sometimes a little random. Here's to a trumpet of yellow daffodils.
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