Wallflower Quotes
7 quotes
"I hate you.'My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She really did.'I love you,' was all I could say in return."
"Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches."
"Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I'm present,am I here at all?Is there a written rule book,that tells you how to be—all the right things to talk about—that everyone has but me?Slowly I am withering—a flowered deprived of sun;longing to belong to—somewhere or someone."
"Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I'm present,am I here at all?"
"In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance."
"It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book."
"Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower."