Butterfly Quote by Joe Hill

“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

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which…

— Anthony Trollope

“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

“She had told Erstwhile too much in the past, and thus he knew that occasionally she did go crazy. Sometimes it was when she…

— Frances Hardinge

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected.…

— Jane Austen

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time…

— Scott Westerfeld

She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence…

— Dennis Lehane

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She…

— Rebecca Wells

“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken…

— Joan London

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney