#blossom

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ↗

— Max Muller

#blossom #cannot #flower #live #man

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33) ↗

— Tim Willocks

#apple #asymmetry #atlantic #autumn #blind-man

This is a theater," Bertie, annoyed by the inquisition, dropped him onto stage. Several feet of slack cable landed atop the fairy in a slithering heap. "Oh!" Peaseblossom said. "You've buried him alive! ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#eyes-like-stars #funny #lisa-mantchev #mustardseed #peaseblossom

Because I’m emotionally immature, I’d prefer letting go of you early and always remembering you as you were, rather than hanging on and letting things develop and blossom and then eventually decay.
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— Jarod Kintz

#decay #develop #development #early #emotional

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#aspire #blossoming #jewish #land #new

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fertile-soil #plant #recovery #seeds #success

Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns? ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#blossom #philosophy-of-beauty #price-of-beauty #roses #thorns

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom. ↗

— Feroz Bham

#change #leaf #life #change

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dawn #famous-quotes #gardens #inspiration #language

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#best #blossom #give #into #mission