If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Then her eyes are fluttering open and she's looking into me. Not at me, but into me.” — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder. — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“So I care for this restless fluttering in my heart as if it were a bird with a broken wing, in the… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, Too rough to… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall"… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind,… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Rahul did not realise the fluttering of the pigeons that so often disturbed everyone in the lab, by darting in and out… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes just a little bit of light is enough to turn phobias into fluttering butterflies.” — Marina Matiss Copy Share Image
“Now picture a volume of human / Reduced to planes and fluttering / Under my thumb like a flipbook / Showing the disease in action” — Amit Majmudar Copy Share Image
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image