She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
– Nenia Campbell
Related Quotes:
- We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t a man. The bank isn’t like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men. – John Steinbeck
- It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
- You want to come back to the bank vault?- Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house. – Allen Zadoff
- my own chocolate center has filled up with poison,the roses he gave me all twisted black – Terra Elan McVoy
- The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank. – Alberto Caeiro
- If you give, expecting something in return, it’s not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it’s not really loving at all. – Donald L Hicks
- I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine. – Nenia Campbell
- You mean you don’t want to come in and hold my hand while I piss? – Nenia Campbell
- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns. – Marty Rubin
- Flowery tongues have thorny throats. – Kirush Muser
- We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life. – Kilroy J Oldster
- The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He who teaches you how to tend a garden has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Fish rule the waters,but can be caught using worms.Birds rule the air,but can be caught using grain. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George RR Martin
- Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. – Nora Ephron
- Everyone wants to look great in the summer… Don’t just dream, take action!Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today. – Steve Maraboli
- Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons. – Ray Bradbury
- He licked up to her ear and whispered, -œYou taste like summer. Did I ever mention, summer is my favorite season? – Heather Thurmeier
- What are summer teeth? Summer in their mouth, Some are elsewhere. – Suzanne Woods Fisher
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
- If you want to make a difference in the world… prepare to suffer. – Jeff Vines
- The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
- Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair, – Pablo Neruda
- He wanted her. Here, now, between growing vines and fallen leaves, in the rain and the mud. Anywhere.And she wanted him, too. – Pamela Gibson
- … the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines! – EA Bucchianeri
- People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. – Marguerite de Navarre
- Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers. – Amit Ray
- Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds. – Sanchita Pandey
- Forgiveness… a secret garden where Joy and miracles abound, and the garden is always open to everyone who makes the Loving choice to visit there. – Raymond D Longoria Jr
- I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can. – Anthony Liccione
- If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- ????, Christina.--œYes, ???? Christina. I think she’d like that. – Nenia Campbell
- Books make the best ersatz friendships. – Nenia Campbell
- You must be a blast on long car rides.--œOh, I am. You haven’t experienced fun until you try to ???? in the front seat of a Civic. – Nenia Campbell
- My book sales are way down today. Also, I’ve received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me -œa purveyor of insipid wet-dreams. – Nenia Campbell