A Victorian Flower Dictionary Quotes

“We plant, we nurture, we grow and we give, different flowers for different moments in time, but all for the same purpose: to say that which cannot be said, and to say it with beauty and with grace.”
― Mandy Kirkby, A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion

“For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned. The sugary smoke settled in my hair as I slept, the scent like a cloud left on my pillow as I rose. Even so, the moment my mattress started to burn, I bolted awake. The sharp, chemical smell was nothing like the hazy syrup of my dreams; the two were as different as Carolina and Indian jasmine, separation and attachment. They could not be confused.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, A Victorian Flower Dictionary

“ancient Celtic belief that when a child dies at birth, an angel throws a daisy down upon the earth to console the bereft parents.”
― Mandy Kirkby, A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion