Unpetalled Quotes

#1. I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#2. Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

Robin Tunney

#3. Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

Stevie Wonder

#4. Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

Elizabeth Lesser

#5. He was full of love - for himself, first, and his prowess - such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her -

Norman Mailer

#6. There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Robbins

#7. Being gay is not an excuse for being a dick.

John Green

#8. I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel. "It was all because of the shower gel," I said. Morelli's eyes narrowed. "Shower gel?" I made a major effort not to sigh. "Long story. You probably don't want to hear it.

Janet Evanovich

#9. Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right
just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive
just something fun and good and beautiful.

Regina Doman

#10. You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

Christine Feehan