Ellen Cooney Quotes & Sayings

it her fault that the graveyard has the best dirt? She loves her plants! Just — Ellen Cooney

Sometimes when dogs greeted a returning soldier, they'd go over the edge. They would have to take a few moments to run crazily in circles around the human, or around a room or a yard. I'd have to take a break from watching, so my brain had a chance to absorb what I was seeing: that there is such a thing as joy being bigger than the container that holds it. — Ellen Cooney

She was healthy & thriving, like a weed: a weed with no interest in trying to become, say, a proper flower. — Ellen Cooney

then the bottom fell out of everything that used to have a bottom, and now she's expected to kill her own plants. At — Ellen Cooney

Breakfast delivered on a tray every morning is joy, and so is a meal at noon if she doesn't go out. To dine every evening in an alcove of the inn set aside specially for the Morleys is a fore-taste of heaven. The alcove is large enough to entertain guests; they have use of a secluded parlor as well. Lydia could serve on committees, receive callers, go shopping, order a carriage whenever she felt like it, visit her children's houses and spoil her grandchildren without having them all congregate at the house and make chaos. — Ellen Cooney