Quote by Ian McEwan

“Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.”

— Janosch

“What if everyone knew what a flower could do?”

— Katherine Brickley

“Odd," said Miss Pettigrew conversationally, "the undermining effect of flowers on a woman's common sense.”

— Winifred Watson

“Yet there was something else, something different about her this time, like a room where someone has thrown out all the flowers while you…

— Herman Koch

“It wasn't as if the flowers themselves held within them the ability to bring an abstract definition into physical reality. Instead, it seemed that...expecting…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?”

— Margaret Atwood

“He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having,…

— Michel Faber

“The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them.”

— Kate Chopin

“And suddenly it smelled like someone forgot to turn on the gravity. The air was so fresh and light you could practically float on…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

“We don't teach flowers to bloom; we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.”

— Dane R Pascoe

“People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Yesterday's rain had left a bitter, springlike smell in the air; the vehemence that beat against her in the street and hummed above her…

— Willa Cather