“The flowers like me back.”— John H. Carroll Related Quotes “The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.”— Matshona Dhliwayo “Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality.”– Pierre Corneille “How I should have raised all her terrible destruction to the surface like a shipwrecked boat dredged up from the sea floor. But that would have given the fracture a shape, a dimension–a definite perimeter to the ruin. This way has a subtle cruelty. This way will torment. She will spend years trying to map the rift she caused and sound the damage. She will push on the bruise and grow frantic trying to repair the creeping remoteness. It is the unkindest thing I have ever done. And I will not relent. I will not do otherwise.”— Priya Parmar