Quote by Michelle Rowen

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”

— Mark A. Cooper

“And he’d grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Be the cactus, a proof of unsubmission, and blossom amidst the fiercest environment.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I rubbed my head against his chest like a cat soliciting attention and marking her territory. I couldn't get close enough. I wished humans…

— Genna Rulon

“So I came down here, to breathe dust and walk with the dogs-- to look at a rock or a cactus and know that…

— Douglas Coupland

“Well what I was going to say was that it reminds me of us because a cactus can grow and thrive without a lot…

— Rebecca Bloom

“...a soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day.”

— Sarah Porter

“Just be sure that you observe carefully what wells up within you and place that above everything that you notice around you.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“His gaze turns soft, and for a moment, I’m completely swept away with the promise in those eyes. There’s nothing dirty, heated or sinister…

— J. Saman

“And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon.”

— Ally Condie

“if you were adventurous, scoop out the fragrant, heavenly, alarming flesh of the durian.”

— J.G. Farrell

“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make…

— Gary D. Schmidt