“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
― Wyrd Sisters
― Wyrd Sisters
“I picked three tiny lion-faced blossoms for my buttonhole and gathered a round dozen for my darling, set their own pale leaves about them for a nosegay, and bound them tight with a bit of aluminium foil from the kitchen.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“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.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
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