Butterfly Quotes - Page 16

• Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Blue, Alcohol

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!

  Eric Carle

  Beautiful, Two, House

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.24, Penguin

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• Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

  Roberto Bolano

  Sunset, Night, Dancing

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• Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

  Toni Morrison

  Tangible, Reeds, Absence

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Writing, Garden

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• There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beautiful, Wings, May

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• Go to sleep, baby,Mama will sing. Of blue butterflies, and dragonfly wings. Moonlight and sunbeams, raiments so fine. Silver and gold, for baby of mine. Go to sleep, baby. Sister will tell, of wolves and of lambs, and demons who fell.-Pierce's Lullaby Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction)

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Sleep, Blue

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Glasses, Light

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Light, Ice

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. 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 remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

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• The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Night, Self

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• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

  Novak Djokovic

  Thinking, Giving, Bumps

  "Novak - I can win the 'golden slam'". Interview with Pedro Pinto, edition.cnn.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

  Eva Green

  People, Beetles

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• You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

  Joan Jett

  Want, Good Things, Stomach

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

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• Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

  Marian Keyes

  Relationship, Flower, Thinking

  "Ask a grown-up: how do we measure love?" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Cockroaches, Consciousness, Deny

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• You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

  Damian Lewis

  Sleep, Night, Feelings

  "'Homeland' Star Damian Lewis Talks Brody's Season 2 Struggle, The Emmys And More". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. “When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance.” His eyes met mine.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking About You

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.336, MIRA

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• I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

  Hope Solo

  Book, Social, Persons

  "Hope Solo Goes Hollywood and I'm Here to Grill Her". Interview with Ken Baker, www.eonline.com. August 5, 2011.

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• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  Taylor Swift

  Dad, Friendly, Degrees

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  Being In Love, Helping Others, Hunger For Love

  Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct 1971.

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• I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

  Serena Williams

  Names, Different, Court

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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Winter, Imagination

  "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.

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