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• Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

  C. S. Lewis

  Black, One Day, Sun

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

  Clive Barker

  Clouds, Sun, Glory

  Clive Barker (2001). “Cabal”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

  Ernest Dowson

  Death, Dream, Flower

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Thinking, Expectations

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.131, Penguin

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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• It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

  Thomas Moore

  Heart, Soul, Tears

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.235

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• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

  Robin McKinley

  Sweet, Silly, Heart

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  May, Eternity, Found

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.38, University of Texas Press

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• I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

  Graham Greene

  School, Two, Differences

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as a little girl. I'll go and let myself be consoled by my roses, my palm trees, my enormous volcanoes in San Salvador. When you are old, maybe you'll come and see me someday.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Girl, Mother, Home

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Butterfly, Air

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rushing, Soul

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• Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

  Regina Doman

  Real, Princess, Hard Work

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• Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!

  Regina Doman

  Princess, Forget, Imagine

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• A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

  Nicholson Baker

  Beer, Roots, Paper

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Thinking

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• I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

  James Frey

  Dazzle, Million Little Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.231, Anchor

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• To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Flower, Race

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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• Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Long, Age

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Song, Sweet, Home

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• What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

  Kristin Cashore

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Confused, Humor

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• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Perfect, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hustle, Born, Avenues

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.21, Canongate Books

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