lilacs QUOTES

1 " Shazi,

I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night—
For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.

Khalid. "

― Renée Ahdieh , The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)

2 " April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. "

― T.S. Eliot

3 " If heaven existed, she’d just found it. His earthy scent. His stabilizing energy. Nothing smelled better, not even fresh bread from the oven, or a puppy or lilacs in the summer. He filled every crevice in her heart, gluing the broken pieces back together, one breath at a time. "

4 " Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks." Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you who hold it in your hands" ; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks)" You let it flow from you, you let it flow,And youth is cruel, and has no remorseAnd smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course,And go on drinking tea. "

5 " You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music. "

― Michelle Leighton , For the Love of a Vampire (Blood Like Poison, #1)

6 " Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you’ve grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth. "

7 " When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. "

8 " Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. "

9 " April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain. "

10 " April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain. "