Petals Quotes - Page 6

• Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

  George Iles

  Nature, Science, Next

  7 Copy quote

• Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

  Delano Johnson

  Adventure, White, Feet

  5 Copy quote

• She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Men, Sky, Voice

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2011). “Scandalous Desires: Number 3 in series”, p.123, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lonely, Couple, Cutting

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Feelings, Bruises

  5 Copy quote

• I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth. As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong. “Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.

  Madeline Miller

  Strong, Memories, Hands

  16 Copy quote

• Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins. Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Rose, Black

  22 Copy quote

• The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

  Jon Gordon

  Rose, Gold, Pay

  4 Copy quote

• A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Tired, Rose

  31 Copy quote

• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Dresses, Rotting

  4 Copy quote

• When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me.

  Jenny Lawson

  Brother, Sleep, Men

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I’m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other’s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad’s eyes.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Dad, Drinking

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.186, Crown/Archetype

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Kids, Ghetto

  25 Copy quote

• My petal. Westminster’s toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip. A.

  Gail Carriger

  Issues, Tea, Toys

  4 Copy quote

• It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Echoes

  "Cocktail Time". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1958.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of rain caught on Rafe's eyelashes, blinding him as the circus light struck them. He groped for the flap, that slit in the fabric that would reveal her to him. She was on the rope again, her skirt flashing with tiny mirrors, hair braided with petals. He looked up at her, dizzy with it, seeing her face framed in the parasol. There were bluish shadows around her eyes.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Rain, Flower, Eye

  6 Copy quote

• The wind is tossing the lilacs,
  The new leaves laugh in the sun,
  And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
  But for me the spring is done.
  Beneath the apple blossoms
  I go a wintry way,
  For love that smiled in April
  Is false to me in May.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Spring, Fall

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

  Wallace Stegner

  Summer, Past, Rose

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.43, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Lonely, Spring

  5 Copy quote

• Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Summer, God, Flower

  23 Copy quote

• Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

  Mary Karr

  Running, Wish, Full Potential

  17 Copy quote

• Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cat, Eye, Kissing

  4 Copy quote

• I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?

  Meng Haoran

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Meng Haoran, “Spring Dawn”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

  Stephen King

  Dust, Sky, Rose

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source