Spip

“He stuck it into his button-hole and muttered, as he laid himself down again: "Tom Codlin's the friend.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“mates, to my sisters and me, are seen mainly as shadows of the people they're involved with. they move. They're visible in direct sunlight. But because they don't have access to our emotional buttons-- because they can't make us twelve again, or five, and screaming-- they don't really count as players.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso