She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.


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PATRICK WHITE
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent f...
PATRICK WHITE
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by ...
PATRICK WHITE
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, ...
BETTY WHITE
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to ...
E.B. WHITE
This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.
AIDAN WHITE
At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper sh...
AIDAN WHITE
There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demandi...
AIDAN WHITE
The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding be...
AIDAN WHITE
Impunity in the killing of journalists remains the intolerable scandal of our times that can no long...
AIDAN WHITE
Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism. No journalist is safe once they take to the streets.
AIDAN WHITE
We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local ...
AIDAN WHITE
The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. Bu...
AIDAN WHITE
No. That is not what I heard him say.
AIDAN WHITE
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE
We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE
If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's ag...
SHAUN WHITE
I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place l...
SHAUN WHITE
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad th...
MEG WHITE
It is amazing how generous people really are. This has really been a great thing.
ALAN WHITE
Our strategy is to focus on those areas where we can have a good competitive advantage, so we do thi...
ALAN WHITE
It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,
ALAN WHITE
Obasanjo has absolutely no control over this guy, ... like a head of state down there.
ALAN WHITE
It is a great relief to finally have won our first game, especially against such a strong side as Ro...
ALAN WHITE
Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
HALE WHITE
There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art ...
HALE WHITE
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no dange...
HALE WHITE
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE