Flowers Quote by Jane Smiley

“They looked for all the world like miniaturized rose petals drained of their color. These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking…

— John Green

“the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose…

— David Foster Wallace

“window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.”

— Jacob Grimm

“destroying beauty a rose red sunlight; I take it apart in the garage like a puzzle: the petals are as greasy as old bacon…

— Charles Bukowski

“But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one perfect red…

— Julie Otsuka

“He extended a hand and a sunflower materialized. Long and gorgeously yellow, it twirled in his fingers. “Peace offering.” “What happened to red roses?”…

— Sophie H. Morgan

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

— Stephen King

“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches…

— Carl Sandburg

“Above us hung a tapestry of silver and gold and palest green that in my world had faded into white: a great oak so…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.”

— Oscar Wilde

“In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn!”

— June Stoyer

“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain…

— Anne Brontë