121 Quotes About Butterflies

Deep, rich orange and speckled with black, every now and again a flick of their wings flashed an underside of green and mother-of-pearl - the silver wash that gives the fritillaries their name. The female flies straight and level, the slow semaphore of her wing-beats and the scent from the tip of her abdomen exuding allure. The male swoops in tight loops under and up and in front of her, stalling so she can pass beneath him through a shower of intoxicating scent-scales shed from his forewings.

The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Ballet in the air...Twin butterflies until, twice whiteThey Meet, they mate

Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death.- Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm

Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.

Sometimes we catch them in jars for a minute before releasing them. Sometimes we wait too long to release them and find them dead. We know the names of the girls who keep the butterflies too long, and we have no idea what to do with this information.

With all the flourishes and flowers, these pictures seemed to be created by a young woman anyway. At least one who was young at heart.Heather turned the page again to a pink butterfly named Rosa Belle, and she smiled as she read the description. Rosa Belle was a very proper butterfly, invited often to take tea with the queen in the gardens behind Buckingham Palace.