56 Quotes About Poppy

She was already dressed for the day in a simple blue gown, her hair in a loose braid tied with a white ribbon. How apt it was that she'd been named for the showiest of wildflowers, rich and vivid, a gleaming finish to the bloom. Her blue eyes surveyed him with such attentive warmth that he felt a catch in his chest, a dart of pleasure-pain.

That girl is a grade one a-hole with a severe attitudinal problem.

In the deep spring when the grass was green on fields and foothills, when the lupines and poppies made a splendid blue and gold earth, when the great trees awakened in yellow-green young leaves, then there was no more lovely place in the world. It was no beauty you could ignore by being used to it. It caught you in the throat in the morning and made a pain of pleasure in the pit of your stomach when the sun went down over it.

From out of the ground a eulogy grows and becomes a poppy.

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.

Somewhere in there, my present had become the past. I turned to the Rise. Somewhere out there, my future awaited.

And when the clouds come, I sink; and when the skies dawn, I rise.

Tiny coils of tension formed in my stomach. Part of me wanted to be reminded of what I surely had not forgotten. Thank the gods, the smarter, logical part of me won out. "There was nothing worth remembering.""Now you insult me after throwing a dagger at my face? You've wounded my tender feelings.

When you listen to me, I think the stars will fall.