Butterfly Quote by George Eliot

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

— Glen Duncan

“Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair.…

— Nenia Campbell

“It was like that with her mother – memory upon memory stacked together like the feathers in a wild bird, there to keep her…

— Tahmima Anam

“In almost thirty years of walking around on the grass of the world, she couldn't recall having spent two minutes alone with a butterfly.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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 was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

— Geraldine Brooks

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What…

— Virginia Woolf

“like a butterfly, her wings unfolded”

— Butterflies Rising

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if…

— Joe Hill

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into…

— Dean Jackson

“It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for…

— Sarah Beth Martin

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown,…

— Lisi Harrison