Flowers Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“The words that make the rose bloom were also said to me. The words told to the cypress to make it grow strong and…

— Rumi

“A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose…

— David Foster Wallace

“Many times, while looking at the flowers, unknowingly, we may have transcended ourselves and have become a part of them, at least for a…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”

— Daphne du Maurier

“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and…

— Anne Rice

“Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we’d need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought they were…

— Ally Condie

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

— Nora Roberts

“And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as…

— Mary Balogh