“Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.”

“Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.”

“Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.”

“And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime.That is not the color of red at all.”

“The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.”

“...a vase full of flowers: dark red and pale pink in a cloud of baby's breath.”