Quote by Roman Payne

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby,…

— Roman Payne

“Alongside the practical thought something else struggled and, like an escaped butterfly, took wing: the assurance of something wonderful awaiting her. Just around the…

— Norah Lofts

“Her warm body is wrapped in the shape of a cocoon. Only her spirit will spread its wings and become a beautiful butterfly leaving…

— Michelle Chauvin

“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

“I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings.…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“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

“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of…

— William H. Gass

“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.”

— Roman Payne

“Her eyes were misting over, her heart was talking on her lips. To need everything when everything is finished. She no longer knew whether…

— Violette Leduc

“So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveler, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have…

— Charles Dickens

“He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all…

— Mary Shelley

“Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits.…

— Charles Dickens