Flower Quote by Margaret Atwood

“The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now.”

— Margaret Atwood

“A good old custom. Always fornicate Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.”

— Christopher Fry

“...She worked briskly and efficiently, taking her brush and pan from the drawing-room to the top of the stairs and making her way back…

— Sarah Waters

“Cleaning away the grey-black fungus that kept growing on the walls was a losing battle. If he leaned against them, mould would slick his…

— Margrét Helgadóttir

“I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will…

— Kristie LeVangie

“I stood there for a second, savouring the smell of stale sweat and cheap beer. My feet stuck to the floor as I made…

— Grant Jolly

“The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my…

— Celeste Simone

Somehow, a scrubbed house spells a fresh start.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

“It isn't the smallness of this place that bothers me. It's the grey that's worked its way into the walls. It's the stains on…

— Cath Crowley

The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“…the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient…

— Marcel Proust

“There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.”

— Theodore Roosevelt