51799. “The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.” ― Alan Dean Foster, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye January 23, 2023
51798. “Sometimes we’re loyal to more than one thing. When there’s a conflict, we have to choose which loyalty to honor.” ― Claudia Gray, Lost Stars January 23, 2023
51797. “Luke: Boy, it’s lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I’d be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.” ― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope January 23, 2023
51796. “O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa” ― Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope January 23, 2023
51795. “This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.” ― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith January 23, 2023
51794. “I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)” ― Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire January 23, 2023
51793. “Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones” ― George Lucas January 23, 2023
51792. “When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi.” “You’ve seen Star Wars?” “Seen it and denounced it.” “You’ve denounced Star Wars?” She looked me straight in the eye and said, “Hollywood should not glorify witches.” “I think you’ve missed the point…” “I also denounce Harry Potter.” “Really?” “Yes.” “Because…” “…because literature, especially children’s literature, should not glorify witches.” “Oda, what do you do for fun?” She thought about it, then said, without a jot of humor, “I denounce things.” ― Kate Griffin, The Midnight Mayor January 23, 2023
51791. “A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.” ― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith January 23, 2023
51790. “It’s better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.” ― Terry Brooks, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace January 23, 2023
51789. “Honor is a fool’s prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.” ― Drew Karpyshyn, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction January 23, 2023
51788. “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…” ― George Lucas January 23, 2023
51787. “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes” ― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope January 23, 2023
51786. “Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose” ― George Lucas January 23, 2023
51785. “Every time I question him about the feasibility, he smiles at me like he’s Yoda and I’m just a dumbass without the Force.” ― Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares January 23, 2023
51783. “Bet you can’t even name one romantic movie you like,” she teased. She felt smug when a few minutes went by and Oliver was still unable to name one romantic movie he could profess to enjoy. The Empire Strikes Back,” Oliver finally declared, tapping his horn at a Prius that wandered over the line. The Empire Strikes Back? The Star Wars movie? That’s not romantic!” Schuyler huffed, fiddling with the air conditioner controls. Au contraire, my dear, it’s very romantic. The last scene, you know, when they’re about to put Han in that freezing cryogenic chamber or whatever? Remember?” Schuyler mmm-hmmmed. And Leia leans over the ledge and says, ‘I love you.'” That’s cheesy, not romatic,” Schuyler argued, although she did like that part. Let me explain. What’s romantic is what Han says back. Remember what he says to her? After she says ‘I love you’?” Schuyler grinned. Maybe Oliver had a point. “Han says, ‘I know.'” Exactly,” Oliver tapped the wheel. “He doesn’t have to say anything so trite as ‘I love you.” Because that’s already understood. And that’s romantic.” ― Melissa de la Cruz, Revelations January 23, 2023
51782. “I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.” ― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right January 23, 2023
51779. “Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.” ― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story January 23, 2023
51778. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ― George Lucas, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace January 23, 2023
51777. “Isabelle waved a hand. “No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course,” she added as Alex’s shoulders relaxed, “I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wanted and I wouldn’t have woken up.” “Oh, please,” said Simon. “All I did was tell you the entire plot of Star Wars.” “I don’t think I remember that,” said Isabelle, taking a cookie from the plate on the table. “Oh, yeah? Who was Luke Skywalker’s best childhood friend?” “Biggs Darklighter,” Isabelle said immediately, and then hit the table with the flat of her hand.”That is so cheating!” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls January 23, 2023
51774. “She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.” ― A.M. Homes January 20, 2023
51773. “when life give me a lemon, i make myself an iced tea. mixed it up, it became my favorite” ― ayet lee cyrus windwalker January 20, 2023
51771. “Roses and violets from summer gardens, sun-drenched Sicilian lemons squeezed of their juice and mingled with juniper from the frozen north. Saffron threads and gold leaf from the Indies waited to be turned into something magical. And contained deep within all of this was a smile that flooded him with warmth, a pair of blue eyes, and the scent of chocolate…” ― Laura Madeleine, The Confectioner’s Tale January 20, 2023
51769. “See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do?” “Wow,” Lauren said. “Yes, Mr. Cliché, I know what I have to do. I make lemonade.” “No,” he said. “You scream, ‘Fuck you, lemons!” “And then you throw those goddamn lemons into oncoming traffic, and you go do what you want to do.” ― Priscilla Glenn, Back to You January 20, 2023
51768. “Don’t let your inner demons Take the best of your creeds. If God gives you lemons, You must plant the seeds. Do not be so self-absorbed That you can’t see the tree. If you succumb to what’s morbid You bury your chance to be free.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job January 20, 2023
51767. “Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No one ever told me I had to add sugar but that’s life for you. It ain’t sweet.” ― Elizabeth Flock, Me & Emma January 20, 2023
51766. “When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That’s my logic.” ― Anonymous January 20, 2023
51765. “As far as I’m concerned, there are two types of people in this world: people like Queeg who, when life gives them lemons make lemonade, and everyone else. And although those smug lemonade-makers think the rest of us just sit around all day day bitching about not getting oranges, they’re wrong. It’s all about volume. When you’re ass-deep in lemons, you start looking for a shovel, not a pitcher and a cup of sugar” ― Melissa DeCarlo, The Art of Crash Landing January 20, 2023
51764. “When life gives you lemons…add melted butter , toasted paprika and dip some lobster in it!” ― Stuart J. Scesney January 20, 2023
51763. “Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there was a really amazing planet where they’d evolved into people and lived in harmony with a variety of hyper-intelligent bee. Evolution. Thousands and thousands of years of tiny changes could turn little burning sparks of chemistry into people, into monsters and angels and even human beings.” ― Nick Harkaway, Doctor Who: Keeping Up with the Joneses January 20, 2023
51762. “Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.” ― Jennifer Paterson, Two Fat Ladies Obsessions January 20, 2023
51761. “When Life Gives You Lemons you tell life to Get a Life because lemons are a terrible gift.” ― Patrick Schell January 20, 2023
51760. “When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!” ― priyavrat gupta January 20, 2023
51758. “When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.” ― Neshialy S. January 20, 2023
51757. “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind that the only way to make them into lemonade was to squeeze the hell out of them.” ― Stephen King, End of Watch January 20, 2023
51756. “When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.” ― Davin Turney January 20, 2023
51755. “We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.” ― MAD Magazine January 20, 2023
51754. “When life gives you lemons, you don’t make lemonade. You use the seeds to plant a whole orchard – an entire franchise! Or you could just stay on the Destiny Bus and drink lemonade someone else has made, from a can.” ― Anthon St. Maarten January 20, 2023
51753. “I wouldn’t work in a hospital again! They do not tell you about the high disease risks when they hire you. It is well known that hospital jobs are lemons today with the pandemic. One of my coworkers was suffering with chronic fatigue from her thirties onward. She has never been healthy since working there. She probably had an infection from a sickly patient and never recovered.” ― Steven Magee January 20, 2023
51751. “She always told me that lemons clarify things; they symbolize happiness and hope. But when she died, I stopped believing lemons were anything more than a chore, something sour to squeeze every morning for pie. How ironic that it’s a lemon drop that’s changing everything for me.” ― Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie January 20, 2023
51750. “Mom’s secret recipe used Meyer lemons for a sweeter, richer flavor. That was one of her tricks. That and European butter. With its higher fat content than American butter, it made a flakier crust. “Lolly, what are the three secret ingredients that make this the best lemon meringue pie in the world?” She’d drilled me that last night before she died, demanding I recite every ingredient, every step, until she was satisfied I had it down pat. “The three ingredients are Meyer lemons, European butter, and a leaf of lemon balm boiled into the syrup every time,” I’d dutifully recited in her hospital room, feeling the weight of grief, of responsibility rest heavier on my shoulders with every word. Lemon balm was an unorthodox choice for pie, but Mom had loved cooking with edible flowers and herbs. She’d taught me everything I knew about them. I reached for the little lemon balm potted plant growing on the windowsill over the sink and carefully pinched off a leaf. “In the language of flowers, lemon balm means sympathy or good cheer,” she’d explained once. “So every bite of this pie can help brighten someone’s day.” I crushed the leaf of lemon balm between my fingers and inhaled the scent, hoping it would work on me. No such luck. I dropped the leaf into the pot and stirred. Every time I made these pies I felt her presence. She had loved lemons—their sharp, fresh scent and cheerful hue. She would slice a lemon in half and sniff deeply, happily. “See, Lolly,” she’d say. “Lemons brighten every day. They are a touch of kitchen magic, and we all need a little magic in our lives.” ― Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie January 20, 2023
51749. “Several weeks before he left Peking, Meyer visited a small village and noticed, in a house’s doorway, a small bush with fruit as yellow as a fresh egg yolk. Meyer ignored a man who told him the plant was ornamental, its fruit not typically eaten but prized for its year-round production. The fruit looked like a mix between a mandarin and a citron (which later genetic testing would confirm). It was a lemon, but smaller and rounder—its flavor surprised him as both sweeter than a citron and tarter than an orange. And its price, twenty cents per fruit or ten dollars per tree, suggested that people with an abundance of other citrus valued it greatly. Meyer had little room in his baggage, but he used his double-edged bowie knife to take a cutting where the branches formed a V, the choice spot to secure its genetic material. That cutting made the voyage to Washington, and then the trip to an experiment station in Chico, California, where it propped up a new lemon industry grateful to receive a sweeter variety. The lemon became known as the Meyer lemon, and from it came lemon tarts, lemon pies, and millions of glasses of lemonade.” ― Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats January 19, 2023
51748. “Among connoisseurs of chocolate, Cioccolata Savoia was famous. From Torino to Amalfi, experts lauded the family’s legendary chocolatiers for fusing the smooth, delicate flavor of Criollo chocolate with Sorrentino and Amalfitano lemons.” ― Jan Moran, The Chocolatier January 19, 2023
51747. “Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they’ve reached the age of discretion.” ― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch January 19, 2023
51746. “I am aware of two of ‘America’s Greatest Achievements’ that were lemons.” ― Steven Magee January 19, 2023
51745. “Lemons.” He smiled. “Is this why you always smell like lemons?” “I-I suppose.” She sat on a blue-striped bench at the foot of her bed. “It’s a concoction my mother and I made. It keeps freckles at bay. I didn’t know you noticed how I smelled.” He turned, his steady gaze on her. “I wager there are a lot of things you didn’t know I noticed about you.” ― Olivia Parker, To Wed a Wicked Earl January 19, 2023
51744. “Metaphorically, in relation to the idea of heartbreak, we’re given lemons which are the experiences that cause the idea of heartbreak, then the water comes from our tears that may come during the seasons of our trials and finally the sweetener comes from the joy of the breakthrough and transformation, and in the end you end up with this metaphoric lemonade. When we have a better understanding of heartbreak we go from lemons to lemonade.” ― Victoria L. White, Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships January 19, 2023
51742. “Metaphorically, in relation to the idea of heartbreak, we’re given lemons which are the experiences that cause the idea of heartbreak, then the water comes from our tears that may come during the seasons of our trials and finally the sweetener comes from the joy of the breakthrough and transformation, and in the end you end up with this metaphoric lemonade. When we have a better understanding of heartbreak we go from lemons to lemonade.” ― Victoria L. White, Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships January 19, 2023
51741. “After that, we don’t talk much until she brings out a ginger cake from the larder. “An old family recipe,” she says. “I’ve been experimenting with the quantities of cloves and Jamaica ginger. Tell me what you think.” And she pushes a slice toward me. I try not to gobble for it, for I am starving. “The most important thing with this cake is to beat in every ingredient, one by one, with the back of a wooden spoon,” she says. “Simply throwing everything in together and then beating produces a most unsuccessful cake. I know because my first attempt was as heavy as a brick—quite indigestible!” She gives a rueful smile and asks if I think it needs more ginger. I feel the crumb, dense and dark, melt on my tongue. My mouth floods with warmth and spice and sweetness. As I swallow, something sharp and clean seems to lift through my nose and throat until my head swims. “I can see you like it.” Miss Eliza watches me and smiles. And then I blurt something out. Something I know Reverend Thorpe and his wife would not like. But it’s too late, the words jump from my throat of their own accord. “I can taste an African heaven, a forest full of dark earth and heat.” The smile on Miss Eliza’s face stretches a little wider and her eyes grow brighter. And this gives me the courage to ask a question that’s nothing to do with my work. “What is the flavor that cuts through it so keenly, so that it sings a high note on my tongue?” She stares at me with her forget-me-not eyes. “It’s the lightly grated rinds of two fresh lemons!” ― Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship January 19, 2023
51740. “She breathed in the scent of lemon blossoms, inspired by how their citrus sweetness mingled with fresh ocean air. Closing her eyes, she ran the tip of her tongue over her lips, tasting a faint saltiness in the moisture laden breeze. She imagined how dark, rich chocolate filled with the brightness of a lemon filling and dusted with chunky sea salt might taste. Delicious, she decided.” ― Jan Moran, The Chocolatier January 19, 2023
51739. “Bright yellow lemons twinkled in the twilight sun on a terrace tree, and far beyond my window, San Francisco lay, flat like a pastel toy.” ― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir January 19, 2023
51738. “Life handed me lemons, so I made lemonade, lemon cake, lemon drops, and I even used the rinds to make lemon art. So, the joke is on you, life, haha!” ― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner) January 19, 2023
51737. “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back!” ― Maxim Shekhtman January 19, 2023
51736. “Life isn’t just about getting lemons out of it. An unexpected turn and a kind smile warms you up on the coldest of days.” ― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More January 19, 2023
51735. “That evening after dinner, I picked lemons from the tree in the backyard, the fruits golden bulbs under the rising moon.” ― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir January 19, 2023
51734. “When life gives you lemons, make champagne and leave the whole world wondering how you did it!” ― Marjory Sheba January 19, 2023
51733. “The man who’d put the sword to her neck was uncomfortably buff. He had upsetting biceps. He didn’t look healthy; he looked like a collection of lemons in a sack.” ― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth January 19, 2023
51730. “When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove ’em where the sun don’t shine, because you sure as hell aren’t ever going to see any lemonade.” ― Rob Thurman, Nightlife January 19, 2023
51729. “As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, sour auras! The good thing is that if you don’t want to be a lemon, you don’t have to be! Just don’t let those lemons rub themselves all over you! And you don’t even have to save them! Let lemons be lemons! One of the most important things that I have ever learned, is that I don’t have to save people.” ― C. JoyBell C. January 19, 2023
51728. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana January 19, 2023
51727. “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.” ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything January 19, 2023
51724. “Okay, so we know that someone at your place of work hacked into this laptop. That’s what we know, that’s all we know; let’s not jump to conclusions…yet.” “Unless…it’s backward…” ― Dayna Rubin, A Vetted Asset January 19, 2023
51723. “I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.” ― Ellie Lieberman, Society’s Foundlings January 19, 2023
51722. “As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, ‘Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.’ Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine January 19, 2023
51721. “Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye January 19, 2023
51720. “There is nothing in the world more pathetic than a bunch of wilted dandelions.” ― Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember January 19, 2023
51719. “The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father’s abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn’t save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher January 19, 2023
51718. “He panted over me, winded by his own absurd lecture. The stench of his alcoholic breath stung my nose. Again I didn’t answer. I hoped he’d tire out and end his speech and hobble back to the living room without touching me. Such hopes were unlikely, as was the case this time. “Answer me, you good-for-nuthin’ wench!” The pain bit instantly as his hand connected with my cheek. I shook my head in answer to his crazy questions, feeling a rise of warm tears.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher January 19, 2023
51717. “… ancient days of sorrow ancient days of pain – heartaches of the past slowly began to wane … (from gleaning granules)” ― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution January 19, 2023
51716. “Gregory?” I called. I couldn’t help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a moment. “Do you, um…” I inhaled deeply. “Do you think you’ll still want to be my friend tomorrow?” I held my breath and waited for his answer. Although I could feel the sunshine perceptibly tingle every inch of exposed skin, the way Gregory smiled at me produced a swell of warmth unmatchable even for the sun. “I’ll always want to be your friend, Annabelle. Do you want to be mine?” My head nodded like mad, ecstatic, all on its own. I disappeared among the shadows again and watched my new friend until he stepped around the Hopkins’ house. Then I waited until his car drove off — Gregory and his mother headed for home. I was on a high like no other, but I’d not lost my grasp on reality entirely. I knew that the real test would come Monday. It was one thing to befriend an outcast in the privacy of the woods, but quite another to risk ridicule and reputation when surrounded by peers. This was true even for those with the biggest of hearts, which I now believed Gregory Hill to have.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher January 19, 2023
51715. “I realized at that moment – observing his form move further away without once turning back – that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairy tale in the world.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher January 19, 2023
51714. “Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish for everything he wanted.” ― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox January 19, 2023
51713. “Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher January 19, 2023
51712. “Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them.” ― June Stoyer January 19, 2023
51711. “Look at the lovely dandelions growing through a crack in the pavement. Maybe, you’re one of them. Maybe, we all are.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya January 19, 2023
51710. “It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.” ― Henry Ward Beecher January 19, 2023
51709. “Like the florets of a frail dandelion That disperse at the slightest gust of wind, She lets you go in the trance-like mist, Of the nocturnal sky.” ― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan January 19, 2023
51708. “They picked the golden flowers. The flowers that flooded the world, dripped off lawns onto brick streets, tapped softly at crystal cellar windows and agitated themselves so that on all sides lay the dazzle and glitter of molten sun. “Every year,” said Grandfather. “They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare, and they burn a hole in your retina. A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine January 19, 2023
51707. “Dandelions spring up where civilizations have been destroyed.” ― Marty Rubin January 19, 2023
51706. “Pull out the weeds, or make peace with the dandelions.” ― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That’s Why You Have One January 19, 2023
51705. “There are no gods, thank god, but there are dandelions. Go out and pick some.” ― Marty Rubin January 19, 2023
51704. “There was nothing worse than feeling out of place, and that was a feeling I got to experience quite often.” ― Lydia Howe, Where Dandelions Grow January 19, 2023
51703. “Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we’d blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.” ― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame January 19, 2023
51702. “Those cotton dandelions wafting on the breeze, Are nothing but the immigrants passing through these trees. Spreading their wings, With all their might, To make their kids (seeds) enjoy their flight!” ― Mahesh Mali, Reflections of My Youth: A poetry collection January 19, 2023
51701. “Merriem goes to the kitchen and quickly returns with a wooden tray piled high with thickly sliced bread and brightly patterned dishes of olive oil and dark vinegar. The bread is vivid yellow. It crumbles in my mouth and tastes sweet, honeyed. “Dandelions,” Merriem says to me. Papa is staring at his half-eaten piece. “I thought dandelion was a weed?” “It is,” Merriem replies with a grin. “Isn’t it marvelous?” “Yes, it’s very nice,” Papa says, still looking a little puzzled. “Dad and I call it sunshine bread, eh, Dad?” Huia says.” ― Hannah Tunnicliffe, Season of Salt and Honey January 19, 2023
51700. “The Bond Between Cousins Cannot Be Broken!” ― Lydia Howe, Where Dandelions Grow January 19, 2023