2007 -, Mary Louise McCaffrey, A Handful of Sand, →ISBN:
He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn.
2010, Cordan Stough, A World of Fantasy and Disaster, →ISBN, page 103:
I then See it a rose with a thorn on it the last One there and I grab it and tell the guy I will take it with a card saying to my True love let this rose be a gift to you Even though every rose has a thorn But my heart will always be yours.
2012, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star: A Novel, →ISBN, page 45: