Top 96 Quotes About Fireflies
#1. Fireflies ... They'll follow you wherever you like, as long as you're polite to 'em.
Jessie Atkin
#2. And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
Nicholas Sparks
#3. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars.
Lily King
#6. I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
Marek Hlasko
#7. The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.
Mason Jennings
#8. His lips graze my ear and it's like fireflies are buzzing around my heart.
Steven Dos Santos
#9. She and I were alone in this house, the fireflies more active than our souls.
Alessandra Torre
#10. Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
Leonard Bishop
#11. The dusk had arrived on the wings of a night moth, silent and soft. The sky above me darkened to a deep, beautiful purple. Stars glowed high above, and below them, as if inspired by their light, tiny fireflies awoke and crawled from their shelter in the leaves.
Ilona Andrews
#12. And the time to say it was days ago, perhaps weeks ago, but it was never said. Like the fireflies she used to keep in Mason jars, the promise of its telling had glowed intermittently.
"I love you," he said. And now the fireflies shone with a constant light.
Kathy Hepinstall
#13. Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist ... we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures
Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.
Roberto Bolano
#15. The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho
#16. Early summer fireflies are beginning to dance above the spindly green stalks of weeds like lonesome boys looking for something beautiful and shiny to flash back at them. Lovers looking for someone to love.
Holly Schindler
#17. That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on the Cocus River. The current glittered a silvery reflection. Nor was the Jungle dark. Hundreds of fireflies danced about - it was a magnificent evening
Yossi Ghinsberg
#18. I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.
Laini Taylor
#19. Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!
Tad Williams
#20. Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.
Ruth Reichl
#21. After all, the night sky is a mess of stars -- a million fireflies crammed into infinity. But the mess becomes a map once you know how to use it.
Emery Lord
#22. Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
Amy Lowell
#23. That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That's what God expects us to do. We're to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.
Jennifer Erin Valent
#24. Writing poetry is like an opiate. When you get hooked on a blank page in the notebook, that attracts you like fireflies in the night, and you just have to translate your thoughts into words.
I'm addicted to words.
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
#25. I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no TV to waste their time on.
Andrew James Pritchard
#26. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
Will Advise
#27. Even then I found the word fitting, soothing.
Fireflies.
Fire flies.
Fire, fly.
Rin Chupeco
#28. Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#29. In the summer evenings, fireflies swarm around the tarn, making something hateful almost beautiful.
Bethany Griffin
#30. Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.
Melissa De La Cruz
#32. She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.
Emily St. John Mandel
#33. Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove.
Heather O'Neill
#34. The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.
Heather Heffner
#35. Let's nurture our spirits until they shine; and then let's strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night.
Cristen Rodgers
#36. You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. 'Cause they'd fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere. You'd think me rude but I would just stand and stare.
Owl City
#37. Beautiful things never last. That's why fireflies flash.
Ron Pope
#38. Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#39. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!
Rachel Field
#40. Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation ... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.
Roger Ebert
#41. Think of what starlight
And lamplight would lack
Diamonds and fireflies
If they couldn't lean against Black ...
Mary O'Neill
#42. I wanted a summer filled with porch swings, lemonade and fireflies.
Tiffany King
#43. Did you see that guy in the back, from the radio station?'
His smile is a jar full of fireflies.
'Crazy Girl,' he says.
'All I saw was you.
Hilary T. Smith
#44. Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after him in pale puffs of smoke. The glazed snow crackled underfoot as he started towards the great hall.
Sharon Kay Penman
#45. Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.
Ben Lerner
#46. You are mine-you know you're mine! he cried wildly ... the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened ... the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#47. Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.
Cameron West
#48. Dying wasn't so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer's evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.
Megan Shepherd
#49. And he could still listen to the far-off plaint of a train horn as the express rolled through the night, wailing through a darkness lit solely by moon and fireflies;
William Gibson
#50. ...and only if your wounds let me
I will stand beside you
in the black cold cave
and let fireflies nest my hair.
Karin Schimke
#51. In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons.
Munia Khan
#52. She had never seen snow before, except in TV shows and movies. It had looked to her like the stars were flaking out of the sky. It had looked like thousands of fireflies in the moonlight; like breathlessness, like time stopping, like the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
Lauren Oliver
#53. Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.
Susan Kay
#54. I am lost in the embrace of a soft summer night, surrendering to its ecstasy while the voyeuristic fireflies wink knowingly.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#55. Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#56. My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
#57. We lay there together for a little while longer, watching the sun over the lake as it finally started to go down, and twilight started to fall all around us, the fireflies starting to wink in the grass.
Morgan Matson
#58. So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.
Augusten Burroughs
#59. I thought that a man might be an enemy of other men, of the differing moments of other men, but never an enemy of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams, or the West wind.
Jorge Luis Borges
#61. It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.
Conrad Aiken
#62. This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.
Sarah Dessen
#63. My life will never be extravagant; it will be simple, but I promise it will be filled with love, laughter, and stars released from jars, when I catch enough fireflies. ~Elijah Dirk "Epitaphs from the Afterlife
Autumn Rosen
#64. Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.
Witi Ihimaera
#65. Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.
Sandra Kring
#66. A dark night, lightened up by thousands of glowing fireflies... It's magical...
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#67. Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called luciferin
Jeri Smith-Ready
#68. In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.
Abby Slovin
#69. Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
Felicia Hemans
#70. Nothing moved on the surface but faint coruscations of starlight, caught like fireflies in a spider's web.
Diana Gabaldon
#71. Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots.
C.Z. Hazard
#72. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.
Nancy Freund
#73. Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.
Stephen King
#74. Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#75. The girl who had known the weather and never been burnt by fireflies, the girl who had known what dandelions meant rubbed off on your chin.
Then, she would be gone.
Ray Bradbury
#76. But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#77. There is a place where time stands still ... illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
Alan Lightman
#78. Years later the lights of the growing city would erase the stars from the sky, but back then they shone through the branches like jailed fireflies.
Leslye Walton
#79. I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
Anne Sexton
#80. Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?
Peter Frampton
#81. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.
Yuval Noah Harari
#82. Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,
Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,
Who will keep the world from death?
Who will stop the coming night?
Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been.
H.P. Lovecraft
#84. She went away, and the fireflies, on their electric circuits, fluttered after her like an errant constellation, showing her how to walk in darkness. I heard her say, faintly, "We've got to try, anyway.
Ray Bradbury
#85. If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic.
Maggie Stiefvater
#86. He lights the violin and his mouth fills with fireflies.
Gwen Calvo
#87. Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.
Arthur C. Clarke
#89. Night simply drapes itself over the day
As if someone had lowered a curtain.
The sky glitters and moves,
Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.
Margarita Engle
#90. I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
#91. I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.
Ben Lerner
#92. Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire's size. Then fly off into space. I catch stupid bugs in jars but you're not bugs you're baby stars!
Bo Burnham
#93. They won'y hurt me, right?"
"Right," he said.
"You're probably then times more dangerous than fireflies are"
Dangerous. The word made his heart spike.Something told him that was what this girl was
a danger to his fucking sanity.
J.M. Darhower
#94. It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.
Thomas Harris
#95. It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance, said Howard.
Suzanne Collins
#96. I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow.
Kellie Elmore
