"If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it."

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Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, Penguin

Deborah Harkness

#Sweet Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Fire Quotes

“To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.”
“There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.”
“Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.”
“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”
“I love human aggression. I like it in myself, I think. As far as something to get out, I believe that everybody has it in them, so I like to be an outlet.”
“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.”
“To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.”
“Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.”

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