Allan

“How could he have wanted someone so desperately for so long and then be this terrified when he finally saw him again?”
― Brandon Shire, Heart of Timber

“Don't you dare," Lem barked.

"What?" Anderson pulled his hand to his chest. Not quite sure of the infraction he was about to commit.

"You were going to pick that flower."

Anderson smiled and reached for it again. "It's pretty."

Lem slapped his hand away. "It's endangered. Just look, don't pick."

"That's what they told me about you," Anderson said, bumping Lem with his shoulder.”
― Brandon Shire, Heart of Timber

“never be taught." The cage bird says, "Alas for me, I know not the songs of the woodlands." Their love is intense with longing, but they never can fly wing to wing. Through the bars of the cage they look, and vain is their wish to know each other. They flutter their wings in yearning, and sing, "Come closer, my love!" The free bird cries, "It cannot be, I fear the closed doors of the cage." The cage bird whispers, "Alas, my wings are powerless and dead.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener

“The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds