Haemanthus Quotes & Sayings

Hazel, Hazel, blue of eye. Kissed the boys and made them cry, — Holly Black

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats? — Prince Philip

It's like they suddenly don't understand what it is they have created. I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band around my neck. They didn't create me. She did. It — Pierce Brown

You cannot take this with you, goodman. The wedding band on your hand is queer enough. The flower is too much."
"Give me a petal then," I say.
"I thought you would ask for that."
He pulls out a necklace. It is the Sigil of Andromedus. My Sigil, I remember. It is golden. He drops it in my hand.
"Whisper her name." I do and the Pegasus unfurls like a haemanthus bud. He sets a petal in the center. It closes again.
"This is your heart. Then guard it with metal. — Pierce Brown

We have new roles as coaches and mentors, now that the job of learning is in the hands and minds of the learners. — Matt Renwick

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis. — Francois Hollande

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything. — Mary Gauthier

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right. — Chris Rock

There is a flower that grows on Mars. It is red and harsh and fit for our soil. It is called haemanthus. It means
blood blossom. — Pierce Brown

I touch the haemanthus blossom in my pocket and feel the wedding band around my neck. They didn't create me. She did. — Pierce Brown

I can trust you."
"How do you know?" she says again.
This is when I kiss her. I cannot give her the haemanthus. That is my heart, and it is of Mars- one of the only things born from the red soil. And it is still Eo's. But this girl, when they took her ... I would have done anything to see her smirking again. Perhaps one day I'll have two hearts to give. — Pierce Brown