Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart (and other stories) by Gennarose Nethercott
Monsters and flowers aren’t much different. Sometimes they are hard to tell apart—but a good florist knows what to look for.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.