Top 28 Oleander Quotes
#1. foxglove
IN THE
oleander
RIGHT DOSE
moonseed
EVERYTHING
belladonna
IS A POISON
love.
Maryrose Wood
#2. Dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous ... but such lovely colors.
Anthony Horowitz
#3. I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#4. Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. And Miss Oleander Coy had herself a blue mouth. Little stains at the edges of her raspberry lips where she put her pen when she was thinking, which was always.
Catherynne M Valente
#6. I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.
-white oleander
Janet Fitch
#7. Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.
Janet Fitch
#8. Thank you for your bounty, Oleander, Prince of Poisons, I think. Thank you for all that Mr. Pratt has already received, and all that my father is receiving still, as the poison twists like bramble in his gut, burns within his brain, presses like a boulder upon his heart.
Maryrose Wood
#9. How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
Janet Fitch
#10. You are not just shackled to your life while living it, you continue to be stuck with it after you're gone. Or,
Philip Roth
#11. The people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They were blind sleepwalkers on tightropes, fingers scoring thin air.
Janet Finch
#12. Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.
Janet Fitch
#13. What's real is always worth it,' she explained to me. 'Look how it's made.' She showed me the shoulders, the way they were knit together with a separate yoke instead of a seam. 'You'll wear it your whole life.
Janet Fitch
#14. Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.
Janet Fitch
#15. I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.
Janet Fitch
#16. In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
Janet Fitch
#17. Talk to me. Look up, I thought. But she didn't, only stopped and picked a sprig of alyssum to smell the honey. I cut a shred from my heart and dangled it on a homemade hook before her.
Janet Fitch
#18. We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
Tony Danza
#19. We tried not to be in the same room at the same time when Starr was home, we set the air on fire between us.
Janet Fitch
#20. She's not as pretty as you," I said
"But she's a simpler girl," my mother whispered.
Janet Fitch
#21. There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.
Kevin Smith
#22. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.
Janet Fitch
#24. When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.
Robert Powell
#25. I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
Janet Fitch
#26. Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.
Janet Fitch
#27. I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.
John C. Calhoun
#28. We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
Janet Fitch
