Fluttered Quotes
44 quotes by 38 authors
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One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella--…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you…
— Rick Riordan
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
— Jack London
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No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…
— Virginia Woolf
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Eve took me to teach me how to fence," Claire said. "Not so much how to fence as how to hold a sword and not…
— Rachel Caine
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She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to…
— Anna Godbersen
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It's Mari, Jack," Ken whispered, needing to say it aloud. "What?" Jack jerked around, staring at the sniper as the eyes fluttered closed. "Are you…
— Christine Feehan
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She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams.…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she…
— Nora Roberts
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That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try…
— Terry Pratchett
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17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's…
— Gena Showalter
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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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No more Lastrygonians.†Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
— Rick Riordan
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[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.†Ella fluttered to the…
— Rick Riordan
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
— George Eliot
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Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or…
— Donna Tartt
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The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?"…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Fluttered Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 44 Fluttered Quotes, led by these top contributors: