Flower Quotes - Page 40

• I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Spring, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda (1975). “Pablo Neruda: selected poems”

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• Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Garden, Squirrels, Sky

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

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• It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Sweet, Horse

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

  Kate Forsyth

  Girl, Stars, Rocks

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• Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

  e. e. cummings

  Men, Dirt, Treats

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• Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

  Cassandra Clare

  Would Be, Universe

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• How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ivy, Greenery, Has Beens

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.73, Parkstone International

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• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Men, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

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• Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, Invisible, Fragrance

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.536, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

  Pablo Neruda

  Wall, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses: Love Poems”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

  Anthony de Mello

  Rain, Garden, Thorns

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.6, Image

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• The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Dew, Frost

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.205, Faber & Faber

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• I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

  Tamora Pierce

  Essence, Hands, Stones

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.728, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Sunshine, Thinking, Color

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dwelling, Hats, Inappropriate

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Heart, Two, Shining

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• I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Book, Years, Safe

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• Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

  Megan Hart

  Smell, Water, Vases

  Megan Hart (2013). “Tear You Apart”, p.57, Harlequin

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• And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Morning, Children

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

  Holly Black

  Memories, Lying, Past

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Thinking, Laughing

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• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Kindness, First Love

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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• For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
  Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
  Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
  Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Use, Littles

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Romantic Love, Love Is

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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