Three years Quote by Poppy Z. Brite

“The moths look like souls in the underworld,”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but…

— Arthur Golden

“Above the decorous walking around me, sounds of footsteps leaving the verandas of far-flung buildings and moving toward the walks and over the walks…

— Ralph Ellison

“But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways I cannot…

— John Keats

“Despite the heavy, motionless silence of the hawthorns, these gusts of fragrance came to me like the murmuring of an intense vitality, with which…

— Marcel Proust

“Some believe that the onslaught of insect and animal noises that fill the night air are actually the night’s way of calling spirits to…

— Cindy Parmiter

“Hovering wasps and bees drilled into the moist nectar oozing from the rotting pears, then flew off and circled in drunken euphoria, wasted in…

— Michael Hornburg

“The moth batted its wings angrily at him as it twisted and spun gracelessly in the green blades. “For Consort’s sake, throw us a…

— C. Kennedy

“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

— Alice Hoffman

Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes'…

— Jeaniene Frost

“She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her hand. She…

— Sarah Addison Allen