“Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.”

— Shirley Jackson, book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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novelist, short story writer 1916–1965

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

“Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

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“I try to catch at many a tune
Like petals of light fallen from the moon,
Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away — for who can hold
Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

"Old Tunes"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

“Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love…I am trying to be truthful.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).

“You are the sun, I am the moon.
You are the words, I am the tune.
Play me.”

Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter

Play Me
Song lyrics, Moods (1972)

“I am a cemetery loathed by the moon.”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Je suis un cimetière abhorré de la lune. <br class="br">"Spleen (II)" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Spleen_%282%29 <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) <br class="br">Source: Paris Spleen