Flower Quote by Elizabeth C. Bunce

“You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.” She had in fact turned away from him to stare at the bowl…

— Anne Rice

“As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I was nearly…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“This web of lies was growing so convoluted, so branching, and so delicate that a moth’s fart might knock it to pieces—”

— Scott Lynch

“The house might, in fact, have passed for the world's largest rosebush if here and there a pane of glass had not gleamed and…

— Jane Louise Curry

“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“... crystal spheres imprisoning green lizards, salamanders, millefiori bouquets dragonflies, a basket of pears, butterflies alighted on a frond of fern, swirls of pink…

— Truman Capote

“My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.”

— Annabel Pitcher

“had much luck, and she was down to the last one: a pale-green silk dress with a vine of tiny embroidered pink roses meandering…

— Julia London

Who gathers the withered rose?

— William Faulkner

“One rose leaf, falling from an enormous height, like a little parachute dropped from an invisible balloon, turns, flutters waveringly.”

— Virginia Woolf

“A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is something horrible about a flower; This, broken in my hand, is one of those He threw it in just now; it will…

— Charlotte Mew