Around the corner Quote by Norah Lofts

“We are all like the butterfly that must struggle to break through temporary confines in order to spread our wings and take flight.”

— Cindy Trimm

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“I watch her with loving sadness as she dulls her shine to please others. Will this butterfly ever soar? Will she continue to pretend…

— Steve Maraboli

“I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings.”

— Oceangirlie14

“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so…

— Virginia Woolf

“The butterfly slowly but surely made its way out of the chrysalis, struggling to break free from all that had constrained it but also…

— Chrystal Evans Hurst

“She was like a butterfly whose wings would crumple if he touched her.”

— Joss Stirling

“She was like a flightless bird, her wings clipped by every cruel word and heartless action bestowed upon her. I realized I would do…

— Kellie McAllen

“She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.”

— Patricia O'Sullivan

“I wanted to be a butterfly caught on the breeze, floating and free finally, my knowledge of who this man really was fulfilled after…

— Sarah Michelle Lynch

“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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