#flowers

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#flowers #poetry #flowers

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#flowers

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#sun #flowers

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . . ↗

— Betty Smith

#reading #flowers

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ↗

— Susan Polis Schutz

#flowers #happiness #happy #joy #summer

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." "He might have sent her candy and flowers," Isabelle said. "We don't know." "Isabelle," said Hodge patiently, "this is the man who rained down destruction on Idris the like of which it had never seen,who set shadowhunter against Downworlder and made the streets of the Glass City run with blood." "That's sort of hot," Isabella argued, " that evil thing. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#hodge #isabella #jace #flowers

Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck off.”  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flowers #fuck-off #love #roses #love

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#flowers #forgets #hand #his #man

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#nature

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ↗