(fiction) Hanahaki, an illness affecting those consumed by unrequited love that manifests as the coughing up of flowers, which clears up upon reciprocation. A fictional illness, it has found popularity among both Japanese and foreign online fanfic (especially) artists and authors for its poetic quality.

to discard the shadow for the substance; compare take the shadow for the substance.

Good things don't last forever. Roses have thorns.

(literally) know the other side and yourself, a hundred battles will not be perilous

very beautiful, said of a woman