Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn’t have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for “a cup of coffee”. If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn’t have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what’s going on. Tony has no idea, all he knows is that Peg isn’t the same Peg he married back in 2003. All he knows is that she’s changed a great deal, and not for the better, like a beautiful butterfly regressing back into a devouring, ugly caterpillar in the span of only a couple of months.
— Rebecca McNuttStory is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.
— Harley KingA caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.
— Matshona DhliwayoButterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.
— Jazz FeylynnA light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.
— Amanda MosherThe moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.
— Suzy KassemBeauty is where the beheld butterfly disappears from sight.
— R.H. PeatHe 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 Malley... On these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.
— Henry Walter BatesThis caterpillar does not just simply grow wingsFirst, it must alter its mind; transform the very being of itselfIt must climb the tallest tree, the highest mountainSwim the deepest of oceansWalk through the fiercest of flamesAnd then, if it chooses, this caterpillar can become a butterfly.
— Aubrey Moore