#lily

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world. ↗

— Adam Ant

#lily #me #means #most #world

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#did #everyone #films #i #like

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#daughters #lily #love #thorns

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#fair #her #lily #precedence #rose

Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the servants' bedrooms. It would be rolled up and stuffed under a sofa. What was the good of doing it then, and she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those habitual currents in which after a certain time experience forms in the mind, so that one repeats words without being aware any longer who originally spoke them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#experience

I began to see that Wendy had something Tiger Lily hadn't even known she was supposed to have. Of all the things Tiger Lily had thought she might have to be for Peter-strong, brave; to be big and to keep up-she had never thought that the one thing he wanted most from her was simply to show that she believed in him, always and without fail. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#believe #love #love-triangle #peter-pan #tiger-lily

Ok, let me get this straight. Big wolf attacks you, and you bring him home?” Brid threw out her arms and sent an ‘are you a moron?’ look to her best friend. ↗

— Tempest C. Avery

#lily #home

We made love like Tuesday at noon, even though it was Thursday at 3:00, and then again at 3:03. (I have the stamina of a water lily). 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fornication #lily #love #sex #love

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love