Rose

"The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed."

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

"Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best."

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."