Blood Quote by Tanith Lee

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

— Geraldine Brooks

For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What…

— Virginia Woolf

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into…

— Dean Jackson

“And so, they sat next to a birch tree, watching the butterflies spin around them. Linetta leaned back, her dark hair falling against the…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“like a butterfly, her wings unfolded”

— Butterflies Rising

“And then it dropped lower, and her eyes caught it in all its pale majesty. It was a moth, no more, no less, but…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“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

“...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

“She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies, butterflies, beautiful insects, dancing, fluttering, skimming, while she alone dragged herself up out of the…

— Virginia Woolf

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

— Stephen King

She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's…

— Sonya Hartnett

“Her eyes were deep blue. Long eye lashes guarded them as if they were guarding a treasure of immense value. One could feel the…

— Aporva Kala