A-court-of-wings-and-ruin Quote by Sarah J. Maas

“There was a vase of flame-coloured tulips in the hall - surely the most graceful of flowers. Some thrust their heads forward like snakes,…

— Jean Rhys

“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as…

— Meg Rosoff

“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

“...and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled…

— Sue Grafton

“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother´s garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors, their petals…

— Laura Nowlin

“Delicate footprints circled around and around in a softly traced maze. I breathed in the scent of the deep crimson rose petals before me,…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the fetor of…

— Theodore Roethke

“The rose fell, a brief fragrant blazing meteor before it plummeted to the cold stones, forgotten.”

— Melinda O'Donnell

“One rose leaf, falling from an enormous height, like a little parachute dropped from an invisible balloon, turns, flutters waveringly.”

— Virginia Woolf

“What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout.…

— Manil Suri

“The thorns we endure in life are but shadowed by the precious petals of a rosey outlook.”

— Andrew Pacholyk

“Four of the roses were on fire. They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets and howling colossal…

— Anne Carson