Lilac Quotes
Quotes tagged as "lilac"
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“The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (鈥淎 Story About The Most Important Thing鈥�)”
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“Holding up an oil-paper umbrella,
I loiter aimlessly in the long, long
And lonely rainy alley,
I hope to encounter
A lilac-like girl
Nursing her resentment
A lilac-like color she has
A lilac-like fragrance,
A lilac-like sadness,
Melancholy in the rain,
Sorrowful and uncertain;
She loiters aimlessly in this lonely rainy alley
Holding up an oil-paper umbrella
Just like me
And just like me
Walks silently,
Apathetic, sad and disconsolate
Silently she moves closer
Moves closer and casts
A sigh-like glance
She glides by
Like a dream
Hazy and confused like a dream
As in a dream she glides past
Like a lilac spray,
This girl glides past beside me;
She silently moves away, moves away
Up to the broken-down bamboo fence,
To the end of the rainy alley.
In the rains sad song,
Her color vanishes
Her fragrance diffuses,
Even her
Sigh-like glance,
Lilac-like discontent
Vanish.
Holding up an oil-paper umbrella, alone
Aimlessly walking in the long, long
And lonely rainy alley,
I wish for
A lilac-like girl
Nursing her resentment glide by.”
―
I loiter aimlessly in the long, long
And lonely rainy alley,
I hope to encounter
A lilac-like girl
Nursing her resentment
A lilac-like color she has
A lilac-like fragrance,
A lilac-like sadness,
Melancholy in the rain,
Sorrowful and uncertain;
She loiters aimlessly in this lonely rainy alley
Holding up an oil-paper umbrella
Just like me
And just like me
Walks silently,
Apathetic, sad and disconsolate
Silently she moves closer
Moves closer and casts
A sigh-like glance
She glides by
Like a dream
Hazy and confused like a dream
As in a dream she glides past
Like a lilac spray,
This girl glides past beside me;
She silently moves away, moves away
Up to the broken-down bamboo fence,
To the end of the rainy alley.
In the rains sad song,
Her color vanishes
Her fragrance diffuses,
Even her
Sigh-like glance,
Lilac-like discontent
Vanish.
Holding up an oil-paper umbrella, alone
Aimlessly walking in the long, long
And lonely rainy alley,
I wish for
A lilac-like girl
Nursing her resentment glide by.”
―

“My mom鈥檚 smile is genuine,
A lilac beaming
In the presence of her Sun.
Indentions in the sand prove
Time鈥檚 linear progression,
Her hair yet unblighted,
Carrying midnight鈥檚 consistency.
Clear tracks fading as the
Movement slips further
In the past.
Cheekbones
High, soft,
In summer鈥檚 hue,
Hopeful.
Each step鈥檚 unknown impact,
A future looking back.
My father鈥檚 strength:
One whose
Life is in his arms.
Squinting past the camera,
He rests upon a rock
Like caramel corn half eaten,
Just to the left
Of man-made concrete convention
Daylight鈥檚 eraser
Removing color to his right.
Dustin sits
In my father鈥檚 lap,
Open mouth of a drooling
Big mouth bass;
Muscle tone
Of a well exercised
Jelly fish,
He looks at me
Half aware;
His wheelchair
Perched at the edge
Of parking lot gravel grafted
Like a scar on nature鈥檚 beach,
Opening to the ironic splendor
Of a bitter tasting lake.
I took the picture.
Age 11.
Capturing the pinnacle arc
Of a son
To my lilac
Who
Outlived him and weeps,
Still.
Their sky has staple holes 鈥�
Maybe that鈥檚 how the
Light
Leaked out.”
― From My Mother
A lilac beaming
In the presence of her Sun.
Indentions in the sand prove
Time鈥檚 linear progression,
Her hair yet unblighted,
Carrying midnight鈥檚 consistency.
Clear tracks fading as the
Movement slips further
In the past.
Cheekbones
High, soft,
In summer鈥檚 hue,
Hopeful.
Each step鈥檚 unknown impact,
A future looking back.
My father鈥檚 strength:
One whose
Life is in his arms.
Squinting past the camera,
He rests upon a rock
Like caramel corn half eaten,
Just to the left
Of man-made concrete convention
Daylight鈥檚 eraser
Removing color to his right.
Dustin sits
In my father鈥檚 lap,
Open mouth of a drooling
Big mouth bass;
Muscle tone
Of a well exercised
Jelly fish,
He looks at me
Half aware;
His wheelchair
Perched at the edge
Of parking lot gravel grafted
Like a scar on nature鈥檚 beach,
Opening to the ironic splendor
Of a bitter tasting lake.
I took the picture.
Age 11.
Capturing the pinnacle arc
Of a son
To my lilac
Who
Outlived him and weeps,
Still.
Their sky has staple holes 鈥�
Maybe that鈥檚 how the
Light
Leaked out.”
― From My Mother

“I miss the floral scent of her hair, the perfume that barely masked the underlying truth of what she was. She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn. And lilac. When she held me to her, lilac was what I smelled first.”
― Rain Falls on Malora
― Rain Falls on Malora

“I鈥檓 sorry,鈥� I whisper. My cold lips fumble the words.
鈥淒on鈥檛 be.鈥� His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I鈥檝e been hearing. 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got nothing to be sorry for.”
― These Broken Stars
鈥淒on鈥檛 be.鈥� His voice is a low rumble against me, the sound carrying through my bones, clearer than any of the voices I鈥檝e been hearing. 鈥淵ou鈥檝e got nothing to be sorry for.”
― These Broken Stars

“In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.”
― Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star
― Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star

“We were in the woods, and not a parent or a friend on earth knew where. At this moment, we were untraceable, this notion an odd pleasure. A patch of fallen leaves glowed in a pool of golden sun, and the dim forest air smelled sweet, of young lilac, invisible sage.”
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir
― Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Spring as always was in full bloom, the breeze laden with lilac, the brush flanking the path rustling with life.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury

“Power smelling of lilac and cedar and the first bits of green, swirled around me.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury

“Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won鈥檛 go off on your own to investigate. I want your word.鈥� There鈥檚 a command in his voice, soft as it is.”
― These Broken Stars
― These Broken Stars

“The strong floral fragrance was sickening, suffocating, and threatened to snuff out any lingering remainder of fragile lilac鈥攐f the mother she鈥檇 loved so, so much.”
― A Reflection of Ice
― A Reflection of Ice

“A scholarly acquaintance in Samarkand had sent my colleague the finest and rarest tulips, as perfectly fresh as though they had just been cut from the stem. He was principally concerned with the microscopic study of their internal organs, especially of the pollen. He therefore dissected a beautiful lilac and yellow tulip, and discovered inside the calyx a tiny grain of alien matter which caught his attention in a singular fashion. How great was his astonishment when, on applying the magnifying glass, he clearly perceived that the tiny grain was none other than Princess Gamaheh, who was reposing on the pollen of the tulip's calyx and seemed to be sleeping calmly and peacefully.”
― The Golden Pot and Other Tales
― The Golden Pot and Other Tales

“Ghosts with periscope eyes,
each a mausoleum of violet lilac sent to earth in
another form.”
― Ghost Tracks
each a mausoleum of violet lilac sent to earth in
another form.”
― Ghost Tracks
“The oblong, one-layer cake was coated in powder-pink frosting. Around the sides of the cake the pink was decorated with white frills resembling lace. Both the top left corner and the bottom right corner of the upper surface were adorned with lilac roses and white rosebuds tipped with strawberry pink. And across the center of the cake, starting at the bottom corner on the left and sloping up towards the top corner on the right, was the baby's name in lilac cursive script: "Perfect.”
― Baking Cakes in Kigali
― Baking Cakes in Kigali
“Remember that ladylike behaviour of yours?鈥� I call out, letting her hear the smile in my voice. 鈥淭his is the time for it. No pushing, shoving, screaming, or鈥斺€�
I don鈥檛 get any further. She鈥檚 heard the shift in my voice and crossed the hallway in a heartbeat. She wastes only a moment in gaping, then shoves past me to dash across the pile of clothes, laughing.
鈥淭arver, Tarver. There are鈥攃an you see them all?鈥� She鈥檚 running the flashlight over the offerings, revealing swaths of fabric of every colour.
I鈥檝e got my mouth half open to reply when she starts unzipping the mechanic鈥檚 suit, and then my mouth falls the rest of the way open by itself. It鈥檚 dark inside the room, but I catch a quick glimpse of pale skin beneath the remnants of her dress before I remember myself, and decide to take a good, hard look at my boots. To judge by the sounds over on the other side of the room, she鈥檚 forgotten I exist. The mechanic鈥檚 suit must have been really uncomfortable, even wearing it over her dress, if she鈥檚 that eager to get it off while I鈥檓 standing here.
鈥淭here鈥檚 dresses,鈥� she whispers, and I catch a movement in my peripheral vision. Oh, God, come on. It鈥檚 the mechanic鈥檚 suit and the ruined green dress being kicked across the floor away from her. So what does that mean she鈥檚 wearing right now? She didn鈥檛 actually say I couldn鈥檛 look.
鈥淒on鈥檛 look,鈥� she cautions me, as though she just read my mind. Dammit.”
―
I don鈥檛 get any further. She鈥檚 heard the shift in my voice and crossed the hallway in a heartbeat. She wastes only a moment in gaping, then shoves past me to dash across the pile of clothes, laughing.
鈥淭arver, Tarver. There are鈥攃an you see them all?鈥� She鈥檚 running the flashlight over the offerings, revealing swaths of fabric of every colour.
I鈥檝e got my mouth half open to reply when she starts unzipping the mechanic鈥檚 suit, and then my mouth falls the rest of the way open by itself. It鈥檚 dark inside the room, but I catch a quick glimpse of pale skin beneath the remnants of her dress before I remember myself, and decide to take a good, hard look at my boots. To judge by the sounds over on the other side of the room, she鈥檚 forgotten I exist. The mechanic鈥檚 suit must have been really uncomfortable, even wearing it over her dress, if she鈥檚 that eager to get it off while I鈥檓 standing here.
鈥淭here鈥檚 dresses,鈥� she whispers, and I catch a movement in my peripheral vision. Oh, God, come on. It鈥檚 the mechanic鈥檚 suit and the ruined green dress being kicked across the floor away from her. So what does that mean she鈥檚 wearing right now? She didn鈥檛 actually say I couldn鈥檛 look.
鈥淒on鈥檛 look,鈥� she cautions me, as though she just read my mind. Dammit.”
―
“My heart threatening to slam its way out past my rib cage, I put my head down on my knees and focus on my breathing. Anything but the thought of what waits for me outside, the dead eyes and bloated corpses.
One. Oh, God. Two. Three. Four. Something snapped when I fell on that body. I broke something in it. It was like a wet branch. No. No. Five. Six. Seven. He would have despised me for running. Eight. What if one of those bodies was Anna鈥檚? Oh, God. No. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Pull yourself together, Miss LaRoux. Twelve. You鈥檙e no use to anybody cowering in a broom cupboard. Thirteen. Fourteen. Don鈥檛 sell yourself short. I don鈥檛 know many soldiers who鈥檇 have done better. Fifteen.”
― These Broken Stars
One. Oh, God. Two. Three. Four. Something snapped when I fell on that body. I broke something in it. It was like a wet branch. No. No. Five. Six. Seven. He would have despised me for running. Eight. What if one of those bodies was Anna鈥檚? Oh, God. No. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Pull yourself together, Miss LaRoux. Twelve. You鈥檙e no use to anybody cowering in a broom cupboard. Thirteen. Fourteen. Don鈥檛 sell yourself short. I don鈥檛 know many soldiers who鈥檇 have done better. Fifteen.”
― These Broken Stars

“Lucien snorted but didn't say anything else as we passed beneath a flowering lilac, its purple cones drooping low enough to graze my cheek like cool, velvety fingers. The sweet, crisp scent lingered in my nose even as we rode on.”
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
― A Court of Thorns and Roses
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