“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”— Candace Plattor, huffingtonpost.ca
“Oscar: Remember the time we were here and we saw all those butterflies? June: Yeah that was really cool. Where do you think they were all going? Oscar: Probably the Grand Canyon. That's where I would go if I could fly.”— Alan Yang, Oscar, Fred Armisen, imdb.com
“Christina: So go on and flit! Flit! Betty Suarez: What? Christina: Flit, it's what butterflies do. Betty Suarez: Oh, I thought you were swearing at me in Scottish...”— Donald Todd, Betty Suarez, America Ferrera, imdb.com
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Contrary to what they say about having butterflies in your stomach, love is calm and safe. It’s about finding your person in life who gives you a specific kind of comfort and safety that nobody else could.”— Dorothy Field, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s rare to find someone who both feels like home yet gives you butterflies like kissing someone for the first time.”— Leena Sanders, thoughtcatalog.com
“A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first; allow yourself time to grow.”— Kaiylah Muhammad, amazon.com
“When I finally saw him, it felt like there was a samba school in my heart.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blind eyes and sticky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“To my fellow hikers: that noise I made when the butterfly came toward my face was a terrified shriek of delight.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Something surged through him. The nerve endings exploded into shivers on his skin. His diaphragm fluttered. And of course it couldn't have been lust or love and it didn't feel like like, so it must have been what the kids at school called like-like.”— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com