You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll understand it later: men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. We bear their children, who are witches if they are female, human if not; and then in the blink of an eye they are gone, felled, slain, lost. Our sons, too. When a little boy is growing, he thinks he is immortal. His mother knows he isn't. Each time becomes more painful, until finally your heart is broken. Perhaps that is when Yambe-Akka comes for you. She is older than the tundra. Perhaps, for her, witches' lives are as brief as men's are to us.
Philip PullmanTags: death witches butterflies
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: beauty grace flowers butterflies
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: philosophy butterflies caterpillars
She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.
Lisa GenovaTags: life inspirational butterflies
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.
LeeAnn TaylorTags: life inspirational learning god change heaven mortality angels earth transcendence becoming transformation butterflies butterfly planet being become chrysalis metamorphosis spiritual-path spiritual-progression
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.
Gabriel García MárquezTags: butterflies favorite one-hundred-years-of-solitude gabriel-garcia-marquez mauricio-babilonia
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Ellen DeGeneresTags: humor inspirational butterflies
He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.
Gemma MalleyTags: life love death flowers gemma butterflies anna flower peter butterfly malley the-declaration
They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans.
Katsura HoshinoTags: humor man humans butterflies cool canibals d-gray teez tyki-mikk
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 KeatsTags: love letter three butterflies summer days fanny-brawne fifty-common-years
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