Life Quote by Bella Osborne

“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They didn't burst…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly now and nothing could touch her…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end…

— Penelope Williamson

“Butterflies are trapped first, before they are free.”

— Deb Caletti

“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression, like a thick glass jar that closed around you, sucking away the…

— Kristin Hannah

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“The first time she had tried to kill herself, she had intuited that there was no escape. She had seen, with sudden clarity, that…

— Dan Chaon

“Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the…

— Norah Lofts

“She couldn’t go looking for loss. Of any kind. Because it would awaken those old feelings, the ones she kept tightly coiled inside, the…

— B.A. Shapiro

“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in…

— Matt Haig

“She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept…

— Ann Brashares

“Just one word, infused with naked desperation; half prayer, half enchantment. It felt like a freezing charm on her soul making her his prisoner,…

— Genevieve Dewey