“I must have flowers, always, and always.”

“Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.”

“I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

“And she said…
"Flowers are red young man
Green leaves are green
There's no need to see flowers any other way
Than they way they always have been seen."”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.”

“Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.”

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

“You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--”