Gay-romance Quote by K.A. Merikan

“I look over at the man in question and just the sight of him gives me butterflies.  No, not butterflies.  Butterflies don’t quite do…

— Devon Herrera

“Sadie heard a flurry of wing snap as yellow, orange, and tiger-striped moths flew into the light. Dean stood haloed by moths that pulsed…

— Susan Tekulve

“Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.”

— Sarah Willis

“And then he leaned forward and my stomach collapsed, taking in that last breath. I closed my eyes and watched in awe as all…

— Natalie Bina

“My stomach was so full of butterflies and other insects with busy, brushing wings—entirely appropriate under the circumstances, I couldn’t help but think!—that I…

— Melanie Benjamin

“I’ve always preferred moths to butterflies. They aren’t flashy or cocky; they mind their own business and just try to blend in with their…

— Kayla Krantz

“Moths must fly to his flame and perish gladly.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth's part in life, and a day…

— Virginia Woolf

“He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.”

— Carson McCullers

“Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because…

— Glen Hirshberg

“His eyelids fluttered. (Only eyelids do that. And butterflies.)”

— Rainbow Rowell

“The butterflies did a slow orbit in her stomach.”

— Julie Anne Long