Petal Quotes

#1. Open your heart
like a beautiful flower,
one petal at a time,
love, compassion and kindness,
to spread the beauty
all around you and feel the joy.

Debasish Mridha

#2. She would also be creating her own bridal bouquet. She wanted to feel the fragility and softness of each petal. And to make the single flowers stronger than they'd been separately. Just as she was stronger now, together with people who loved and accepted her.

Liz Grace Davis

#3. Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

Simon Van Booy

#4. I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.

Laura Miller

#5. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.

Nadia Hashimi

#6. Why? How had this otherwise sensible woman who had only met Beamabeth as a screaming purple blob fallen under her spell? Or had Beamabeth slipped immaculate into the world, petal-cheeked and smiling amidst gleaming golden curls?

Frances Hardinge

#7. I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

E. E. Cummings

#10. Vishous : Oh, shit ... you didn't rose-petal the bed, my lord. Tell me you didn't go like that ?
Rhage : He petaled the bed ? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! LOLOLOLOLOLO

J.R. Ward

#11. For a girl, with each boy it's as though a petal gets plucked each time.

Susan Minot

#12. Why do you cal me 'Petal'?"

"Because a petal is on every flower, and every flower reminds me of you. Everywhere I go, I'l never forget you,

Sam Crescent

#13. She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. I love you, Petal.

Christina Lauren

#15. Earth relates to the Universe as the second segment of the left antenna of an aphid sitting on a flower petal in a garden in Teaneck, New Jersey, for a few hours this afternoon.

Edward O. Wilson

#16. I will use a flower petal for paper,
And write you the sweetest letter,
You are the sultan of my heart,
Sultan of my heart.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#18. I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Rumi

#19. A mother's love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother's love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope.

Ellen J. Barrier

#20. She looked the way a rose petal looks when you crush it between finger and thumb.

Rupert Thomson

#21. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

Hilary Mantel

#22. It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals.

Marilynne Robinson

#23. Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

Chris Albrecht

#24. From a bud of the evening a flower opens its petal in the dawn. The world sees the bud of the last night smiling with nectar on its lips. No one observed the diligence that was needed for the opening of each petal.

Pratibha Ray

#25. Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.

Nicola Morgan

#26. The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

Frederick Lenz

#27. And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. But he missed one petal. And she guards it with a tiger's ferocity.

Sara Wolf

#28. This was what she needed ... the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

Eileen Wilks

#29. Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

Mary Karr

#30. What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout. The colors that brighten the darkness of the stairs, the scents that perfume the air. Must I climb alone the petal-strewn trail of your descent?

Manil Suri

#31. Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align ourselves with this divine energy, offer our work to Him and move on in life, we will never have any worries and anxieties in our life.

Sanchita Pandey

#32. When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

Brandi L. Bates

#33. Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

George Iles

#34. Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#35. I'm a sunflower with a cracked petal.

Augusten Burroughs

#36. Adina sat up. "It's denigrating and objectifying."
"No. It's eye shadow and lipstick and sex and mystery and magic and transformation and fun. And nobody's taking that away from me. You will pry my Petal Power lip gloss out of my cold, dead hands," Shanti insisted.

Libba Bray

#37. A rose does not cease to be a flower because it lost one petal.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.

Sophie Kinsella

#39. Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine.

John Steinbeck

#40. It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits

William Carlos Williams

#41. The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

Michel Faber

#42. The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

Hilda Doolittle

#43. We're petal people. I think about the earthquake kiss in the alcove and want to cry again.

Jandy Nelson

#44. Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

Benjamin Franklin

#45. He grinned, teeth and dimples and freckles moving like dust in a ray of sunlight. "Ayup, petal."

Oh

Alexis Hall

#46. That point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall; that moment captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life. Mono no aware, the Japanese call it.

Tan Twan Eng

#47. If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy!

Adelaide Crapsey

#48. In early spring, every petal of tulips sing a song of love and life, dance with joy and happiness to enjoy her short life of dazzling beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Your petal from the salty rose

Tom Robbins

#50. A little bird'll be here with the morning." "Oh?" said the rose-petal lady. "Tomorrow morning?" "That's the only morning coming." "It can't be," the rose-petal lady said. "It's too soon." "No it ain't. Right on time.

Toni Morrison

#51. Once a blooming red rose, full of streaming life in its veins.
Now a wilting black petal rupturing with death and pain.

Jessica Sorensen

#52. Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#53. My petal.
Westminster's toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip.
A.

Gail Carriger

#54. Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.

Virginia Woolf

#55. If he'd been able to he would have rolled out a rose-petal carpet at her feet. He would have liked to conduct an orchestra of birds to sing as rainbows appeared in the sky, one by one.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#56. The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Robert Jordan

#57. 'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.

Michel Faber

#58. She smelled like a rose, and she tasted like a rose petal.

Rohit Sharma

#59. Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other - and to me.

Dean Koontz

#60. The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
comes, the petal falls.

Kabir

#61. That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.

Amanda Tero

#62. Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt.

Ideaswar

#63. I call people 'petal' all the time. My postman is very confused by this.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#64. I want to stumble across something on the sidewalk and pretend she dropped it: a flower petal, a scarf. And then I want to set it on fire.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#65. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

Anthony Liccione

#66. Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

#67. Song like a rose should be;
Each rhyme a petal sweet;
For fragrance, melody,
That when her lips repeat
The words, her heart may know
What secret makes them so.
Love, only Love.

Frank Dempster Sherman

#68. I like my things
hurried and haunted. Night tea
darktime.

Sacred geometry, secret geometry
petal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

Virginia Petrucci

#69. It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

William Carlos Williams

#70. Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.

Robin Hobb

#71. It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

P.G. Wodehouse

#72. May the Love you are
blossom into Being.
With each unfurling petal
May you know the beauty
of your Soul.
May you sow seeds of Love
through every season

Julie Parker

#73. I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose,
in order to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#74. Tell me now, Anna, he silently pleaded as she ran her finger over a rose petal. Tell me I could have a son, that we could have a son, a daughter, a baby, a future - anything.

Grace Burrowes

#75. Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

Olivier Theyskens

#76. Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls.

Marty Rubin

#77. The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#78. Though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

E. E. Cummings

#79. The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom.

Richard Schultz

#80. Once I found a sticky-note that said someone was placed on a "petal stool". If you ask me, that sounds a lot better than a pedestal. If I had to choose something to be placed on, I would choose the petal stool.

Shane Hinton

#81. Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.

Lynn Cullen

#82. You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Arthur Eddington

#83. In fact, I've been thinking; lips like that have got to be soft as a rose petal. You wouldn't mind if I tested them out, would ya, sweetheart?

Codi Gary

#84. I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

Michel Faber

#85. The way you seem nervous makes me think you don't know that I'm in love with you."
I looked up at him, eyes wide and hands froze. Click.
"I love you, Petal. I've known it for a while now, but everything changed for me last night.

Christina Lauren

#86. I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

Franz Kafka

#87. It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?

Tupac Shakur

#88. Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?

Aleksandra Layland

#89. Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.

Mary Balogh

#90. Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them

Munia Khan

#91. Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Nikita Dudani

#92. He growled a sigh and her insides got all warm and gooey. She really needed to date nice men who didn't growl.
-Lily Travis

Lauren Dane

#93. Behave like the flower; it blooms with its own petals without bothering to take the colour of another flower's petals. You can excel with what you have!

Israelmore Ayivor

#94. We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress

Michel Faber