“I gave her roses and she blames me for the thorns”
“She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.”
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.”
“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”