Thorn Quotes

“The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous

“I think I’m starting to get used to you”
― Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”
― Anthony Liccione

“She kissed his scars, first the one cutting through his eyebrow, then the one cutting into his cheek, and finally the one cutting across his temple. With each contact, Thorn's eyes widened. His muscles, conversely, tightened.
"Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
"Thats the number of my scars."
She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
― Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel

“I like girls too, Scrivener.” Amusement danced in Nathaniel’s eyes. “I like both. If you’re going to fantasize about my love life, I insist you do so accurately.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Grom-gil-Gorm," she said softly as she rode between Laithlin and Yarvi. "Breaker of Swords." Mother Isriun's horse shied back out of her way. "Maker of Orphans." Thorn reined in beside him, his frowning face lit red by the blazing light of her elf-bangle, and she leaned from her saddle to whisper.
"Your death comes.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“The bed of thorns will teach you what the bed of roses can’t.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country. "But I did see a show of Hopper once. And I like his light. It was kind of lonely or something.

Or, "The world's a mess, it's in my kiss,' like John and Exene say," he mumbled. We were in a leather store on Market Street being punks on acid with skunk-striped hair and steel-toed boots.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Echo

“If you're afraid of the thorn, you truly don't deserve the rose.”
― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

“Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.”
― John Flanagan, Slaves of Socorro

“Thorn. Good demon overlord.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Son of No One

“She shoved her to the dirty floor and pressed an open palm against her shoulder to hold her down while her rage and sorrow blossomed into a glistening thorn.”
― Amber Newberry, One Night in Salem

“Life must be bad if my only friend is a giant bat.”
― Joshua Khan, Shadow Magic

“If you know how to make people happy with a single look, then you are a rose! If you know how to hurt people with a single touch, then you're a thorn!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Earth is beautiful, am reborn,
I saw, only when life paused,
I now know, the rose flowers,
Why they come with thorns!”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“A thorn is a pain, but the flower is a beauty if it vanishes it will leave hundreds of seeds afterward.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I am Thorn, and I have come to make you bleed,”
― Paul Andrew Ross, The Birth of Vengeance

“Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.”
― Cristen Rodgers

“She stiffened and gasped, and the touch was immediately withdrawn.
"Did I hurt you?"
Her lashes lifted. "No," she said in wonder. "In fact, I didn't feel any pain." She strained to look between them. "Is there blood? Perhaps I should-"
"No. Win..." There was a near-comical expression of dismay on his face. "What I just did isn't going to cause pain or blood." A brief pause. "When I do it with my cock, however, it's probably going to hurt like hell."
"Oh." She pondered that for a moment. "Is that the word men use for their private parts?"
"One of the words gadjos use."
"What do Romas say?"
"They call it a kori."
"What does that mean?"
"'Thorn.'"
Win slid a bashful glance at the heavy protrusion straining behind his trousers. "Rather too substantial for a thorn. I should have thought they would use a more fitting word. But I suppose-" She inhaled sharply as his hand moved downward. "I suppose if one wants roses, one must-" his finger had slipped inside her again- "bear the occasional thorn."
"Very philosophical.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise

“You know, you're a lot like him," I'd definitely lost my mind considering I was now talking to an unopened bouquet of flowers. "So pretty and smelling good. But give in and pick one up, and I'll get pricked by a thorn.”
― Vi Keeland, The Naked Truth

“You will be struck, and when you are the force of it must not stagger you, the pain of it must not slow you, the shock of it must not cause you to doubt.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“The petals of their lips don't have the thorn of bodies. (Les pétales de leur lèvres N'ont pas l'épine des corps)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Earth is beautiful, am reborn,
I saw, only when life paused,
I now know, the rose flowers,
Why they comes with thorns!”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“A woman of faith is like a thorn in the camp of the enemy because, without fail, she always wins.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Anche un po' di più”
― Christell Dabos

“Don’t run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“What do you mean like? Like, like like?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half the World

“Not all love is a bed of rose,
And not every flower glows.
Even the cactus with its thorn
Can make an impact to reborn!

Nem todo amor é um mar de rosa,
nem toda flor é assim tao cheirosa.
Mas até o cacto com tanto espinho
causa um impacto em seu caminho!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“The tension of knowing what I couldn’t give—to anyone, but her in specific—made my skin tighten against the thorns of my bones. Not that I didn’t love her, because it was hard to do otherwise, but that I didn’t know how to love without reservation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot