76 Quotes by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I’m more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl.

The birds had been given everything they needed. A home in the thin, pure air: a moment of weightlessness, a reprieve from the gravity of life.

The origin of our identity is love.

It was there, under the fear, under the avoidance: a love lit with awe, so bright it hurt to look.

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. – HENRIETTA DUMONT, The Floral Offering.

Moss has no roots.

Their lives would not turn out as they dreamed. I understood this, even as mine had turned out far better than I would have hoped, had I permitted myself to hope for anything at all. I was the exception, I knew, and even my own good fortune I believed to be a fleeting moment in what would be a long, hard, solitary life.

This is it, you know,” she said. “Your life starts here. No one to blame but yourself from here on out.

There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.