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“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

“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”

— Monique Duval

“...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

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.”

— Roger Deakin

“The white moth of hope fluttered before her face.”

— Cornell Woolrich

“The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance,…

— Oscar Wilde

“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Her gift with wild birds allowed her to bring them to her merely by lifting her hand. From a distance, when she ran so…

— Alice Hoffman

“The moths look like souls in the underworld,”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“...the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni