Butterfly Quote by Jerry Spinelli

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf…

— Jerry Spinelli

What we had was a dreamer when she jumped she probably thought she'd fly.~

— Jackie

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the…

— Anonymous

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

“Light swirled beneath her skin like a genie in a bottle. Four-pronged gossamer wings unfurled behind her. They briefly beat the air too quickly…

— Pippa DaCosta

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

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 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 flew like a bird, only faster.

— Alvin M. Johnston

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

— George Eliot

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

— Anne Lamott