Dark Quote by Nenia Campbell

“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

“He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off…

— Mary Gaitskill

“Somehow, what they'd had was already over, and she hadn't even been aware of the end. This happened with roses: it was possible to…

— Alice Hoffman

“I gave her roses and she blames me for the thorns”

— Rodney White

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The roses once grew there, and well their lives conceal; the ivy cobbled up their voices, and made me not to feel.”

— Amy N. Edwards

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

— Cassandra Clare

“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

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

— Nora Roberts

“I made flowers grow for them out of the garden, but they came out ... weird. Some of the roses had teeth.”

— Tamsyn Muir

“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.”

— Laura Lam