Rose Quotes - Page 39

• Mark glanced at his watch and sighed. "Look, I have to go, but I'm serious, Rose. Stay here. Stay out of trouble. Fight Strigoi if they come to you, but don't go seeking them blindly. And definitely leave the ghosts alone. " It was a lot of advice to get in a grocery store, a lot of advice I wasn't sure I could follow.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Advice, Watches

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Blood Promise”, p.129, Penguin UK

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• You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked. "Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said. "Ah," he said. "Now I remember hearing about you. I had no idea such a fierce Strigoi killer would be so beautiful." "It's part of the job description," I said dryly.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Jobs, Ideas

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• Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly. "Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other commitments. No, we've got much better choices." A better choice than Janine Hathaway? Not likely. Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Commitment, Eyebrows

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Black And White, Past

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• I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

  A. A. Milne

  Morning, Hair, Doubt

  A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

  Susanna Clarke

  Light, Scotland, Gentleman

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Flower, Book

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• Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign on it. The lettering was red, apparently to emphasize how serious they were. Personally, I would have added a skull and crossbones to really drive the message home.

  Richelle Mead

  Home, Skulls, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

  Steve Martin

  Skins, Forgiven, Forty

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Rose: "I was testing dorm security. It sucks." Dimitri: "You must be freezing. Do you want my coat?" Rose: "I'm fine. What are you doing out here? Are you testing security too?" Dimitri: "I am security. This is my watch." Rose: "Well, good work. I'm glad I was able to help test your awesome skills." - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov (Shadow Kiss)

  Richelle Mead

  Kissing, Skills, Shadow

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• You're so stupid, Rose!

  James Cameron

  Stupid

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

  Anne Fortier

  Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• I rose and moved towards him. You would have done the same yourself. It is an ancient matter. Something propels you towards sudden grief, or perhaps also sometimes repels. You move away. I moved towards it, I couldn't help it.

  Sebastian Barry

  Grief, Moving, Done

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• Adrian Ivashkov: "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak." Rose Hathaway: "If by 'devastating' you mean that you should fear for your life, then yeah. You're right.

  Richelle Mead

  Tired, Mean, Clothes

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.38, Penguin

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• It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

  Brad Meltzer

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• Dimitri: "I also have a feeling your mother's going to have one ugly conversation with me." Rose: "You're about to go face down Strigoi, and my mother's the one you're scared of?" Dimitri: "She's a force to be reckoned with. Where do you think you got it from?" Rose: "It's a wonder you bother with me then." Dimitri: "You're worth it, believe me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• ...and the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Night, Glasses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

  Sylvia Plath

  Caves, Hung

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

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• Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

  Anne Lamott

  Ego, Thrill, World

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor

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• The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

  Joanne Greenberg

  Lying, Garden, Perfection

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.

  Mary Balogh

  Flower, Heart, Shallow

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.142, Delacorte Press

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• It had not seemed to matter that Rose was only eight years old. "More than eight," said Rose. "Nearly nine." "Darling Rose, even almost nearly nine-year-old's don't fall in love," said forgetful Caddy. Caddy tried very hard to comfort Rose when Tom had left. It was not an easy job. It was like trying to comfort a small, unhappy tiger. "Who said anything about falling in love?" growled Rose crossly. "Falling! Falling is by accident! I didn't fall in anything!" "Oh. Right. Sorry, Posy Rose." "And I am definitely not in love!

  Hilary McKay

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Sorry

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