"Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them"
- Munia Khan
"Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
- Don Marquis
"Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever."
- Nikita Dudani
"A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear...."
- Will Advise
"She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away."
- Amanda Tero