Quote by Ross Macdonald Download Open image ““He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.”” — Ross Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A pink puff danced off his head. And he was dead. His eyes would haunt me later. But not then. Then, it was killing… — Josh Stallings Copy Share Image
“Her head was perfectly still, eyes unblinking. He imagined her ego swimming up behind them, to peer at him suspiciously, something eel-like, larval, transparently… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.” — Barbara Haines Howett Copy Share Image
“And she did not have to see him to know that he was there, because the butterflies were always there.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.” — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
“He had no ears. The artificial ones, which now stood out at an angle from the fine wire, were his one weakness. They were… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Just when the butterfly thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The frog's tongue rolled out, but the butterfly was not to be caught.” — Silvia Marsz Copy Share Image
“As trite as the thought was, even her butterflies got the butterflies with just a tilt of his lips, and it had always been… — Genevieve Dewey Copy Share Image
“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
