Butterfly Girl Quotes

#1. My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!

Bob Carlisle

#2. The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

Jean Rostand

#3. Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good.

Nancy Rawles

#4. I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

Jean Arthur

#5. Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

Crystal Woods

#7. I think that's one of the biggest signs a person has matured - knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don't matter very much to you.

Colleen Hoover

#8. I literally melted. Seriously, how was I going to not go for this guy?
"May I?" he asked. Somehow I went from puddle on the floor to freaking out school girl. My insides were fluttering like a butterfly garden.

Jessica Florence

#9. Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn't give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
I'm talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs

George Watsky

#10. - How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm ... A poetic gladiator.

Nora Roberts

#11. I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#12. To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy.

Michael Ventura

#13. Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn

Laura Miller

#14. Her honey-blonde hair is strewn across her face as she sways her head. She's working a red sequined bikini separated by a tan, flat stomach, and a butterfly tattoo resting on her left hip. Her legs are clad in black fishnets that run into a pair of white-heeled boots - still a knockout.

Kevin James Moore

#15. Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

Adam D'Angelo

#16. Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Bing Gordon

#17. I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like a moth becoming a butterfly, she'd probably say that sexual intercourse was like a deer getting antlers or something.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#18. The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Ellen McLaughlin