All-over-but-the-shoutin Quote by Rick Braggs

“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”

— Melody Lee

“You have never slept until you have been rocked to sleep by a willow tree, the whole think creaking as the wind pushes it…

— Rick Braggs

“life is too short to dance with an ugly woman”

— Rick Braggs

“...it was hard to be miserable living by the beach.”

— Rick Braggs

You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

— Ladyhawke

Smiles are to people as sunshine is to the roses.

— Tom Black

“Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.”

— Rick Bragg

It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in…

— Suzanne Collins

“Sometimes, Francisco thought that people might be roses.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as…

— Mark Doty

When roses aren't red and violets aren't blue that's when I'll stop loving you.

— Anonymous

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

— Siri Hustvedt