Jasmine

“She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them”.
Geraldine Brooks”
― Geraldine Brooks

“[When asked to use 'horticulture' in a sentence:] You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“After the blaze burns out, keep watching and wait to hear what the ashes are saying.”
― Samuel Hazo

“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish. The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country