"Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't……" — Susanna Kearsley
"Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go."
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Susanna Kearsley
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22 Quotes by Susanna Kearsley
Susanna Kearsley has 22 quotes on this site.
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If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those…
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The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we…
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..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and…
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Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them
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When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it…
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Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.
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Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
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But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first…
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