Libba Bray Quotes

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

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?

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Betrayal is beautiful.

In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.