“I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”

“A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms;
And feel (companion of the dead)
I'm living in the tombs.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”

Ray Bradbury book All Summer in a Day

“My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.”

Waris Dirie book Desert Flower

“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom

Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”

Henryk Sienkiewicz book In Desert and Wilderness

“When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher