Best Lilies Thoughts
186 Lilies quotes by 138 unique authors
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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
— Oscar Wilde
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Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Your name is written on my heart, Lily
— Nalini Singh
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If you die, Lily ... I’ll steal your soul and take you to the Abyss, where I will keep you in my magical dungeon so…
— Nalini Singh
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The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.
— Emily Dickinson
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I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But…
— Mary Oliver
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted.…
— Lauren DeStefano
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It’s up to you, not fate. True. But it was also up to Lily. That was the trickiest part.
— David Levithan
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I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who…
— Leonard Cohen
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Adrian stood there leaning against the doorframe, watching me with his heart in his eyes. In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my…
— Richelle Mead
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I need dating advice. Fast.” Ash arched a single brow at that. “I’m useless. I’ve never been on one.” The three human men turned to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.
— Amanda Hocking
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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
— Lauren DeStefano
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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.
— Jim Butcher
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It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Er," Oliver said. "He talks even less than the one Lily married," the crone remarked to Walter. "Though when the mood strikes him, he asks…
— Jessica Day George
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Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit…
— Rachel Cohn
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