38 Quotes by Margot Berwin

Chinese Windmill Palm(Trachycarpus fortunei)The Chinese windmill palm does very well in cooler climates, and it doesn't grow very tall, making it the perfect plant for small apartments in big, cold cities. Instead of discarding its older leaves as most trees do, this kindhearted palm simply drops them down until they form a warm, protective skirt around the trunk, thereby giving them a second career.

Datura(Datura inoxia)This one is for the men out there. Datura inoxia is a plant that behaves exactly like a woman. If she lets you spend time with her, you will begin to feel powerful. But you will also become weak, because you will be at her mercy. But if you treat her well, and handle her with the utmost respect, care, and precision, she will bestow upon you visions of a future beyond your wildest imagination.

Everyone stared at my dirty clothes."I'm not dirty," I said. "I'm covered in specially formulated potting soil made from Canadian spaghnum peat moss, organic reed-seed peat, rice hulls, and forest products, perfect for African violets and gesneriads, and probably more nutritious than any of the food we're about to eat.

Jasmine smells like human flesh. Mix it with cumin, which smells like sweat, and you have the scent of sex. If you spread it on your body, watch out, you'll have sycophants all over the place, people crawling out of the woodwork to be close to you.

Fire and leather, jasmine and rose, it was still there on my body and in my hair. If anything the scent was even stronger, coming off my warm, damp skin.It wasn't going to wash off in the shower. It wasn't going to go away. It was part of me now, like eye color or shoe size.Gabriel carried me back to the bedroom with his head still in my hair and my knees draped over his forearms."What's the scent like, for you?" he asked."It's like being covered in magic," I said.

Some doctors think blood type says a lot about the personality," he said. "Type A is calm and trustworthy, and B is creative and excitable. The Japanese ask the question What's your blood type as often as Americans ask What's your sign.""I bet you're type A," I said."I'm O. The universal donor.""Of course you are. The one that everybody loves.

Mandrake(Atropa Mandragora)If you're interested in a plant that looks like a person, has visible sex organs, is an aphrodisiac of the first order, contains mind-altering alkaloids such as hyoscyamine, has been known to cure depression and insomnia, then Atropa Mandragora is the plant for you. But be careful. More than one person who has pulled this plant out of the ground has died in the process.

How many serious situations do you find yourself in?""Not too many, but the ones that I have to figure out are important. Like if I should go visit my old grandma in Bayou Jolie, or if a cupcake should be chocolate or red velvet or orange cake. A decision like that could change your whole day. Make you feel one way or another one, depending on your choice.

See ya, Crab," sullen boy said to Rayanne."Crab?""It's my name, Rayanne Crabbe, with a double b and an e at the end. So what?""Pull in your pincers, Rayanne," said Gabriel, opening and closing the four fingers of both hands against his thumbs.Rayanne's last name being Crabbe was the first piece of good news I had heard in a long time, and as she and Gabriel walked away I could swear she was moving sideways.