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"Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. "
— Robin McKinley (Sunshine)

tags: balance, magic, reassurance, roses, shadows

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"She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]...."
— Eva Ibbotson (A Countess Below Stairs)

tags: a, below, countess, eva, ibbotson, roses, russia, stairs

8 people liked it

"What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?"
— Francesca Lia Block

tags: block, blood, francesca, lia, love, roses

7 people liked it

"There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."
— Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic)

tags: garden, lavender, life, love, luck, magic, mashed, potatoes, rosemary, roses

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"It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. "
— Alan Moore

tags: accpetance, roses

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"Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.

Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.

Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.

i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows."
— Ana Castillo (Women Are Not Roses)

tags: beauty, poetry, roses, strength

1 person liked it

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