#flower

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Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.


Christopher Pike


#flower #shrivel #staring #death

But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.


Laini Taylor


#death #flower #hazael #humor #laini-taylor

Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep peaceful passion of a noble soul. This spring morning, the loveliness of the great city, the first wallflowers scenting her lap, had little by little melted her heart.


Émile Zola


#love #paris #wallflowers #dreams

You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.


Steve Maraboli


#flowers #frustration #life #seeds #success

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.


Lisa Kleypas


#reading #wallflowers #women #humor

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!


Tina Fey


#flowers-for-algernon #humor #humor

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.


Thomas Gray


#life #sweetness #waste #life

Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.


Daniel Keyes


#flowers-for-algernon #life

...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.


C.S. Lewis


#flowers #god-s-will #music #life

who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves


E.E. Cummings


#balloon #flowers #hot-air-balloon #luna #lunar