Petals Quotes

166 Petals quotes by 138 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. — Anne Rice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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