Butterfly Quotes

“Justin is twenty-four years old: the world will never be more suited to him than it is now, he will never feel more embraced by life or have greater faith in his right to exist. The earth and the oxygen, the cities and lights, the nights and the beaches seem created for him and for those like him.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way of being everything at once–grown and sure and clever, young and protected and new.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“She is not a musical girl nor, intrinsically, a joyful girl; but the music of the four Swedes shook something awake inside her, and when she heard it she felt airborne and strong.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“It is not asking much
one person
out of all the world.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“How stupid it is that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly