Ocupation: Novelist
Life: April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855
Birthday: April 21
Death: March 31
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
source: Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.327, Xist Publishing
topic: Flower, Hands, Wish, Flowers Growing, Villette