Rose Quotes - Page 35

• He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

  Zadie Smith

  Political, Construction, Accumulation

  "On Beauty". Book by Zadie Smith, 2005.

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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• My blood rose, mixing with my lingering fear of the unknown to drive her to a fever pitch. Her lips touched my lower neck and vertigo spun the room, burning tracings of desire to settle deep and low in me. I exhaled into the promise of more to come, calling it to me. I breathed it in like smoke, the rising passion starting a feeling of abandonment inside. I didn’t care anymore if it was right or wrong. It just was.

  Kim Harrison

  Passion, Blood, Feelings

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• The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Fire, Cities

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• He rose, offering his hand to Evanlyn to assist her. Even though she was lithe and athletic as a cat, she took it, enjoying the contact. She saw Horace's slight frown as she did so and smiled to herself. A girl can never have too many admirers, she thought. Will seemed unperturbed by the fact that she retained hold of Selethen's hand a little longer than politeness dictated. But then, Ranger's were trained to look imperturbable. He was probably seething with jealousy, she thought.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Cat, Offering

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• I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

  John Keats

  Dew, Fever, Fading

  'La belle dame sans merci' (1820) st. 3

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• As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

  Lord Byron

  Confidence, Believe, June

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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• She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he’d put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Husband, Struggle, Holiday

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• What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

  Agatha Christie

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Faces

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

  Rick Riordan

  Underwater, Rooftops, Caught

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• You gonna back down so easy, little sister?. Not much wild about you, is there? I bet that cottage doesn't have a scratch. Did Edward tell you how many houses Rose and I smashed?

  Stephenie Meyer

  House, Little Sister, Scratches

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.303, Hachette UK

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• Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

  Dodie Smith

  Country, Sky, Giving

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.43, Random House

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• i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

  e. e. cummings

  Weed, Ifs And, Dying

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Sun

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• Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you like her or something?" I hadn't forgotten Avery's comment about leaving the door unlocked for him. "Of course I like her. She's a great person." "No, I mean like. Not like." "Oh, I see," he said, rolling his eyes. "We're dealing with elementary school definitions of 'like'.

  Richelle Mead

  School, Mean, Eye

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• Good God. Men everywhere.

  Richelle Mead

  Men, Good God

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.291, Penguin

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• I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Nice, Mean

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• I don't know. This college would probably have the same problem the last one did." I frowned. "What's that?" "Homework." "Adrian," growled his father. "It's okay," said Adrian breezily. He rested his arm casually on the table. "I don't really need a job or extra money. After Rose and I get married, the kids and I'll just live off of her guardian paycheck.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Father, Kids

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• You'd be surprised. Besides, they don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that." I scoffed. "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?" "No," said Abe, just before he turned away. "They execute traitors.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Insane, Royal

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• He exhaled loudly and raked a hand through the sable brown hair he always kept stylishly messy. "Look, Rose. You don’t have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You’ve already got me.

  Richelle Mead

  Hair, Hands, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

  Christopher Moore

  Needs, Rooms, Grows

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• That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Ridiculous, Spirit Bound

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.968, Penguin

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• The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  Robert Graves (1972). “Poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

  Maureen Johnson

  Irrational, Rational, Phobia

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• I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.

  Justina Chen

  Sorry, Get Well Soon, Flower

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