Rose

"She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart."

"The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns."

"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered."

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."

"Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best."