Quotes on Orchids

Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?