Butterfly Quote by Geraldine Brooks

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

“like a butterfly, her wings unfolded”

— Butterflies Rising

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf…

— Tanith Lee

She flies with her own wings

— Priscilla

“...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

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

“She had wanted wings, and now she was drifting, held together only by the pulsing perimeters of her skin. Even the floor that dug…

— Meredith Duran

“Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They…

— Elizabeth Hand

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

— George Eliot

“She discovered the wings she never knew she had.”

— Natalie Babbit

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

— Glen Duncan

“She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.”

— Joss Stirling