29 Quotes About Lilies

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

next to the beda couple of liliesand two cigarettes smoke like cloudquiet like loud sun and fire

Now everything is white, like Venus, like tears upon lilies, like remembering a dream within another.

It's not fair that I know how great we would be together, except that we can't. It's not fair that, even though I know I'll never have you, I had planned everything - the candles, the lilies - replayed the words I wanted to say a million times when you and I finally made love. I get that it's not fair,

He looked up at the dark line of trees and breathed in slowly, smelling wild garlic, mulched leaves, a fox den somewhere and a sweeter scent. Fruit blossom, he thought. Then that small mystery was eclipsed by a larger one. A stranger scent hid among the blossom, sweet and resinous at once. Lilies, John thought, drawing the scent deeper. Lilies mixed with pitch.

Vanilla lilyMeaning: Ambassador of loveSowerbaea juncea | Eastern AustraliaPerennial with edible roots found in eucalyptus forests, woodlands, heaths, and sub-alpine meadows. Grass-like leaves have a strong scent of vanilla. Flowers are pink-lilac to white, papery, with sweet vanilla perfume. Resprouts after fire.

River LilyMeaning: Love concealedCrinum pedunculatum | Eastern AustraliaVery large perennial usually found on the edge of forests, but also at the high-tide level close to mangroves. Fragrant, white slender star-shaped flowers. Seeds sometimes germinate while still attached to the parent plant. The sap has been used as a treatment for box jellyfish stings.

I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.