Mottled

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw ~Havelock Ellis.

The Visitor

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The bite

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa

Flowering advice

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll

Illumination

When you posses light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin

Work

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein

Alluring

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux