“Love is a peaceful feeling, like a flower hugging a butterfly.” ~~~ Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“Happiness is a butterfly that often eludes your grasp, then suddenly alights on your shoulder, sits for a spell and moves on.”
~~~ Peggy Toney Horton
“Love is that butterfly feeling you get in your stomach, after you swallow a caterpillar.”
~~~ Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
“And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
~~~ Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life
"Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.”
~~~ Harley King
“Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I’m in love with the one that got away.”
~~~ Laura Miller
“I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.”
~~~ William Stafford
“The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower a tethered butterfly.”
~~~ Ponce Denis
“How wonderful it must be, I thought, to be able to just spread your wings whenever you like without someone following you around trying to swat you out of the sky.”
~~~ Gina Holmes, Wings of Glass
“Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected.”
~~~ Jarod Kintz
“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.”
~~~ Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
~~~ Maya Angelou
“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
~~~ Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
“She is like a butterfly, pretty to look at but hard to catch.”
~~~ Nikki Rowe
“My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life”
~~~ Jarod Kintz