It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again. - Suzanne Collins then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. - F Scott Fitzgerald I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude. - Laurell K Hamilton I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn ...

Forgiveness: The scent left by the rose, on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. - Martin Amis As she trotted down the stairs, she saw Blake stand up, tucking his piano in his pocket. The day's bright sun had him trapped in his spot in the shade. She stepped into his cover and kissed him. "Thanks for the roses. And Teddy loves his bow." She brushed her hands through his hair. - Debra Anastasia Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said "Chernobog." The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn't be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope. - Ilona Andrews A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. - Max Lucado If you're stuck you could always double up ...

Pengetahuan tidak hanya terdiri atas mengenai apa yang harus dan dapat kita lakukan, tetapi juga tahu apa yang mungkin tidak usah dilakukan (Kata Willian dalam The Name of the Rose) - Umberto Eco The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own. - Umberto Eco what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls. - Alice Hoffman

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? - Aberjhani But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. - Anthony Doerr There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. - John M Ford Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mothe...

Rose:i love you Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler... (the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek) - Russell T Davies Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So? - Russell T Davies

Would women find vampires even sexier and more romantic if instead of fangs they had rose thorns? It's thoughts like these I think of when digging in my garden, looking for my one true love (If only I could remember where I buried her!). - Jarod Kintz Everything drifts. Everything is slowly swirling, philosophies tangled with the grocery lists, unreal-real anxieties like rose thorns waiting to tear the uncertain flesh, nonentities of thoughts floating like plankton, green and orange particles, seaweed -- lots of that, dark purple and waving, sharks with fins like cutlasses, herself held underwater by her hair, snared around auburn-rusted anchor chains. - Margaret Laurence

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? - Cecelia Ahern Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said "Chernobog." The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn't be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope. - Ilona Andrews Yes. He. Was. Just. Here. Spreading his goodwill and love all around Max's entryway. It's a wonder there aren't cherubs flying around sprinkling rose petals and rainbows erupting through the windows, an aftermath of his delightful visit. - Kristen Ashley Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mou...

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? - Cecelia Ahern Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said "Chernobog." The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn't be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope. - Ilona Andrews Yes. He. Was. Just. Here. Spreading his goodwill and love all around Max's entryway. It's a wonder there aren't cherubs flying around sprinkling rose petals and rainbows erupting through the windows, an aftermath of his delightful visit. - Kristen Ashley When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost i...

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it. - Jordana Brewster Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. - Amy Alcott What restless woman can resist a man with a shovel in one hand and a glowing rose bush in the other, and a moderately crazed glitter in his eyes that might be mistaken for love? - Margaret Atwood After all that happened there, the joy that had poured from its surface had all but disappeared. The ivy covering on the stones, that had once looked beautiful, now had the cold feel of a serpent's nest. The large rose bushes that stood on either side, that had once bloomed large red petals, only gave an image of thorns now. - Katlyn Charlesworth We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nurser...

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. - Edward Abbey What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought? - Jodi Picoult She rose and followed her bust from the room. - Margery Allingham Livia wasn't sure how to comfort Blake. She certainly didn't have a big pile of clean money to take the place of Beckett's. "Beckett is all sorts of bad because of what he does, but who he isthat's very beautiful. Sweetheart, he really stood by me while I waited for you to come out of surgery." She rose and held out her arm. - Debra Anastasia ...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on...

Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes. - Dave Anderson Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. - Steve Carlton I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard. - Eric Davis Pete Rose's last name is so sweet, he can't be a cheater. But a cheat by any other name would smell just as sweet. - Jarod Kintz Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met. - Mike Schmidt

But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it. - Larry Mcmurtry James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh. - Julia Quinn Her greatest wish I should think was that I would remain exactly as I was, and how I regret that that was not to be. It was only for her roses that she wished for change, the strange moment of loral enchantment when the branch of a rose mutates, and shows a "sport," something new arising from the known rose. A leap in beauty. - Sebastian Barry I never promised you a rose garden. - Traian Basescu Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. - Katharine Lee Bates When the door to my writing ...