Petals Quotes
166 Petals quotes by 138 unique authors
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Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon…
— Claudia Gray
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In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our…
— Amy Lowell
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Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a…
— Tony Hoagland
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A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn…
— Max Lucado
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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
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If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf…
— Deepak Chopra
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and…
— Anais Nin
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If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating…
— Haruki Murakami
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was…
— Oscar Wilde
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
— Khalil Gibran
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Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
— Anne Rice
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just…
— Dante Alighieri
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we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would…
— Tupac Shakur
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For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take…
— Emilie Autumn
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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…
— Robert Graves
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Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness…
— Libba Bray
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Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her…
— William Steig
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that…
— Daniel Abraham
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They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.…
— T.H. White
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Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with his…
— Shannon Hale
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The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
— Robin McKinley
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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…
— Francesca Lia Block
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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
Who Wrote These Petals Quotes
138 authors contributed a total of 166 Petals Quotes, led by these top contributors: