"Don’t worry that at the moment you’re not writing. Live a little! Nothing will be lost—it will come back to you with …"

"How wonderful to have a friend who reads, who understands, who offers a critical word that hits the nail on the head."

"the garden rewards me for my efforts. Red and yellow roses lift their faces to me, and the grass is green. Everything…"

"The unwritten letters are the most interesting; they come spontaneously, straight from the heart, and swim away with …"

"“Life, my dear, is a garden full of all kinds of plants,” Mrs. Zagretti said. “People, too, are plants that must be c…"

"dancing around the tree as if it were a pagan god."

""Anyone who says that figs from a can are as good as figs from a tree isn’t worthy of a real, natural fruit — a fruit…"

"The friendship has never crossed over the fence...The garden was the intermediary that brought them together. As the …"

"“A house without a picture, my mother used to say, is like a heart without a god,” Mrs. Zagretti says. “When I pray t…"

""I understand people, maybe not with my brains but with something my ancestors planted in me." (Mrs. Zagretti)"