Antidote Quote by Elspeth Huxley

“And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as…

— Mary Balogh

“She was probably a trusting, naïve girl before him, like a daisy. And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one,…

— Sara Wolf

“Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment’s whim.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Springtime, she thought, before the heat comes and crushes the leaves into pulp and withers the petals off the flowers.”

— Cassandra Clare

“A piece of sun that never left her. It was a bite of bread. A flower in her heart.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if i handled the flower freely its bloom would fade -the sweet charm…

— Charlotte Brontë

“She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.”

— Beth Neff

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.”

— Vann Turner

“(Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.”

— Marisha Pessl