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01Undated

She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

Mary Webb / quote

02Undated

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

Mary Webb / quote

03Undated

Beguildy looked at me over the rim of a great measure of mead. 'Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em, my wench,' he said.

Mary Webb / quote

04Undated

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

Mary Webb / quote

05Undated

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

Mary Webb / quote

06Undated

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

Mary Webb / quote

07Undated

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Mary Webb / quote

08Undated

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Mary Webb / quote