(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.

people may bring about their demise for love (like a deer coming forth when it hears a hunter's whistle in mating season), it is easy to have one's weak points taken advantage of

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

three days ago

very beautiful, said of a woman