Quote by Robert Lowell

“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through…

— Christina Rossetti

“A thorn is a pain, but the flower is a beauty if it vanishes it will leave hundreds of seeds afterward.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.…

— J.D. Stroube

“Lies twist and snarl like ever-growing, thorn-covered vines, Vines that are unavoidable, they grow from anywhere, reaching up to cut you.”

— Frank Murray

“She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.”

— Nenia Campbell

“There is a story about a traveller chased by a tiger to the edge of an abyss. The man took hold of a vine…

— David Hambling

“On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the…

— Matthew Pearl

“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”

— Kiran Millwood Hargrave

“Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.”

— Kathryn Hall

“A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and…

— Holly Black

“I find nothing toxic in the thorn, only the occasional prickle of the rose.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya