“Faith without any actions in accordance with God’s will is a dead faith”
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
Source: The Expendable Man
“So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.”
Source: Wall to Wall
“Both a rose and a cactus have thorns, and while the rose may say, "I love you," the cactus says, "Fuck off." I think that's important to remember, and it's the ideal way to farm ducks.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“It was the act of a gentleman, and Damian was as gentle as a cactus.”
Source: Converting The Bad Boy
“Only cactuses had perennial appeal. And cactuses were of no interest to her.”
“I can see why people drink booze, because boos are a little too dry to satisfy thirst. It would be like chugging a cactus, and while that has enough water for a duck to swim in, it's the kind of thing that's best served to politicians.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“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!”
Source: Pierrot & Columbine
“You can't teach a flower to be polite, because it's already polite; you need to teach politeness to a rude cactus!”
“There is nothing more terrifying than realizing that the one who knows you best loves you least, pities you even.”
Source: Hidden Bodies