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1 " The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. "
― Robertson Davies , What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)
2 " On growing peonies:The fact that a flower as gentle and delightful as the peony should be so exacting and dictate such harsh terms hits me with the force of a cold shower. It's just like my girlfriends when I was a teenager, it was always the loveliest and most yielding ones who ran everything...[and] According to the English gardening book, peonies are so fussy that you might as well not bother. You'd need to go back generations to discover the composition of the soil, you'd have to go right back to the Big Bang to find out how the elements are distributed in your garden. "
― Bodil Malmsten , Sista boken från Finistère
3 " I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me. "
― Justina Chen , North of Beautiful
4 " Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn." Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, " like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods... "
