Butterfly Quotes - Page 17

• I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Pain, Hate, Heart

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• Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

  John Flanagan

  Honor, Said, Knows

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• Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started turning my stomach into a mosh pit. "Hey, it's... it's okay." I patted her back. I was aware of everything in the room. I felt like I could read the tiniest print on any book on the shelves. Annabeth's hair smelled like lemon soap. She was shivering.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Hair, Tears

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• "Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted. "No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hungry, Stomach, Feels

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Flower, Self, Captains

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• A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wings, Broken, Rose

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Emotional, Knowing

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• For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Discovery, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.157, Delphi Classics

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• And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

  Steven Erikson

  Flower, Wind, Yellow

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• Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Enough Time, Dew, Months

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Time”

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• Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Wall, Sleep

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• I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

  William Faulkner

  Light, Air, Rivers

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• butterflies were wind energy made visible.

  Anne Lamott

  Wind, Energy, Made

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

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  Ram Dass

  Rip, Done, Paradox

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• I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, I Get Butterflies, I Love You So Much

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• Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

  Pablo Neruda

  Summer, June, Light

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.83, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Garden, Simple, Rose

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

  Richelle Mead

  Strange, Fluttering, Cardiac

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1326, Penguin

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• When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.

  Kazuya Minekura

  Darkness, Fluttering, Throat

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• No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Blessing, Winning

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Night, Dresses

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

  Jerry Spinelli

  Mind, Cactus, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Hands, People

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• No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Night, Sight, Years

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• Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Wings

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