Emma McKenzie

“Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that's why my heartbeats love them so much”
― Munia Khan

“The thing for you to do is write something with a delayed reaction like those capsules that take an hour to melt in your stomach. In this way, it could be performed on Monday and not make them vomit until Wednesday, by which time they would not be sure who was to blame. This is the principle I operate under and I find it works very well.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near; it has been preparing for it all of its life.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Do you understand everything birds say?” said Mary. Dickon’s grin spread until he seemed all wide, red, curving mouth, and he rubbed his rough head. “I think I do, and they think I do,” he said. “I’ve lived on th’ moor with ’em so long. I’ve watched ’em break shell an’ come out an’ fledge an’ learn to fly an’ begin to sing, till I think I’m one of ’em. Sometimes I think p’raps I’m a bird, or a fox, or a rabbit, or a squirrel, or even a beetle, an’ I don’t know it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden