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1 " He's MINE" , I howled. " Mine! And I'm his! You knew this when you slunk into our bed. I told you at the beginning, and I thought you understood, well, you understand now, don't you?" He had the nerve to extend a placating hand to me, and I wished so violently for a weapon, I were not surprised to hear the clatter of a knife falling out of the cupboard.I turned my head to the side and spat instead. " I told you 'no', dammit. I told you I'd follow him to the ends of the fucking earth, and I will, and you thought that if you took him, you'd take the way I felt. Well, you can't! Hammer and me - we're twined together, like rose bushes or wrought iron, and you can't untangle us, and if you did, you'd have to break us! Don't you see what you've done? You tried to break Hammer! He's mine! My whole life, the only thing I ever wanted were him, and you tried to break him! And why? So you could have me? You don't care for me! "
2 " We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. "
― Alphonse Karr , A Tour Round My Garden (1856)
3 " I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn. "
― Laura Lam , Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1)
4 " I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it. "
