Quotes of: Flowers Keyword

Outside the hospital, a young girl who was selling small bouquets of daffodils, their green stems tied with lavender ribbons. I watched as my mother bought out the girl's whole stock. Nurse Eliot, who remembered my mother from eight years ago volunte...

Alice Sebold

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

The Captive & The Fugitive

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

Coma House

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.

The Color of Water

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Sweetie, I’m not a flowers and chocolates kind of gal,” she said, leaning into him. “Well, maybe the chocolate.” “I was going to say.” — Krysta and Étienne

Darkness Rises

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

Denial: A Memoir of Terror

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

In Desert and Wilderness

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Dandelion Wine

And Mom doesn't like anyone cutting her flowers, so I cut up her magazines instead. Do you like it?

Ethan, Who Loved Carter

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Echoes of the Great Song

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting for me.

Flowers in the Attic

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordon

Flowers for Algernon

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

Flowers in the Attic

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!

Flowers in the Attic

He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.

To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

Ghost Flower

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

The Great Gatsby