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Spring is my favourite season of the year. In honour of it, here are ten quotes about spring, from literal musings about it to jokes to the use of this time of year as a metaphor for much bigger topics..
“…I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists…”
― A Familiar Rain
“The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!”
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“Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade”
― Great Expectations
“Spring time in Florida is not a matter of peeping violets or bursting buds merely. It is a riot of color, in nature—glistening green leaves, pink, blue, purple, yellow blossoms that fairly stagger the visitor from the north. The miles of hyacinths are like an undulating carpet on the surface of the river and divide reluctantly when the slow-moving alligators push their way log-like across. The nights are white nights as the moon shines with dazzling splendor, or in the absence of that goddess, the soft darkness creeps down laden with innumerable scents. The heavy fragrance of magnolias mingled with the delicate sweetness of jasmine and wild roses.”
― Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
“Every year, I’m shocked at the abundance of growth, life, and wholeness that seem to happen in a matter of weeks. Half the year we live in Eden, the other half on Mars.”
― Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round
“Snow in April is an abomination.”
― Anne’s House of Dreams
”Winter has frozen
my heart.
I can’t wait to drink
a glass of spring
and get wild.”
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“I love the smell of rain and growing things.”
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“Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
― Dog Songs: Poems
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
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Title: When Stars Move and Other Stories
I usually weed through my TBR list a few times a year because even though I am a mood reader my tastes do tend to shift over time. Just because I read 3 or 5 or 10 books on topic X last year doesn’t mean I’ll continue with that pattern this year. Sometimes I will, of course, but in other cases my interest in that subject has been satiated and I want to read about other things now.
Last year I used one of the spring themes to talk about 
Title: Vampire Fly – A Samantha Moon Story
Every time we came over to visit, they were to pour a little water in one end of the pipe and make sure it flowed out the other end into a nearby creek.
Thank you to 
Title: Ghosted – A Short Story
I have two words for all of you this week: forbidden romance.
So here’s the thing about spring and my reading habits:
