Delicate Things Quotes

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

a handful of crumpled stars

I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace