Quotessence
Home / Books / she's flowers and fire

she's flowers and fire

Book by butterflies rising · 41 quotes · Butterflies Rising

Filter quotes by topic

AllButterflies Rising

she's flowers and fire Quotes

“i’ve had poems pull me out from the darkest places i've ever been in. like scripture. and music… i could probably write an entire book just about the ways that music has shifted me and changed me and moved me and saved me. like gospel. so when i say that “poetry is my scripture” and “music is my gospel,” i am saying that there are poems and songs that are carrying my soul from one breath to the next in this life.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“2025 is the year you can no longer stay small. and it's ok to take small steps and deep breaths, love, but you also have to learn to take up your own space. and to not say you're sorry when you do. and you're going to be rejected for these wings you're growing and these fires you're starting… but these are such. beautiful. things. they are a sweet and wild rebellion in you. and you have to keep choosing you. because nothing will matter if you reject you. so if something needs you small… you just can't let it hold you still anymore.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“am i safe here, am i seen here, can i breathe here, do i bloom here, can i grow here, can i glow here, do i feel free here, does my pulse stir and my heart beat here, can i trust this, is there truth here, is it beautiful here… do i feel beautiful here, and not just do i feel loved here… but do i get to love me here. out of all of the questions i ask when i am close to someone… “but can i love myself here?” …that will always be my most important one.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“self-love… the most delicate intimacy it's so delicate here. but it's where i'm the most brutal. it's where my raging gets careless, and the delicate things end up crushed. i fight my hardest fights trying to love the deepest love, but i've never been more unkind than i've been in these close quarters. but what if this ache in me is also the fight in me to learn to feel differently. because somewhere deep inside i know that i want to be delicate here… desperately. and there's a tenderness that i'm made of and an intimacy that i'm part of… one that i'm going to learn to take such delicate care of.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“i once loved someone who tried to control me, and so it became somewhere i couldn't breathe. but i also once loved someone i couldn't trust… and that was a kind of prison, too. because freedom and trust aren't strangers to each other… like there’s a way you feel yourself pulled so strongly to someone who makes you feel free… and i also think you don’t ever feel more like letting your heart run wild than you do with someone to whom the state of your heart matters.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“your standards for love are going to make some people uncomfortable. and they will try to make you feel like those standards are too high. i think it’s because those standards threaten their comfort zones. what you believe in either challenges how they treat people… or how they've accepted being treated. but none of that is about you. this is your own life. and it will be your own love and your own heart. so don’t ever let anyone make you question your own standards… keep them high.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“With any kind of heartbreaking or excruciatingly hard thing we go through, there's this turning point that can come, the one when you start to feel yourself shifting from hurting to healing… and healing from something you thought you might never recover from. That feeling is maybe one of the most powerful things we can ever feel. It's that feeling of knowing that not only are we going to make it through what we thought we couldn't, we're going to come out of it all a more beautiful version of ourselves. And we just have to keep reaching for that turning point. And we don't have to let the things that break us break us for good or completely strip away our passion and light and fire and hope. We can let them take us deeper into ourselves and connect us even more to all those things that set our hearts wild and free.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“in June… i hope your next days bring in life like summer, like light, like warmth… and that you let good things come to you, and you let them fall on you without a fight. what if life is holding something so beautiful for you… i hope you let that be true and you let yourself believe in the beautiful as it unfolds all around you… i hope you let it all make you feel so free.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“you're still learning to feel worthy… and maybe you don't believe it yet… but i hope you keep going until you know it's true. i hope your next days bring in life like summer, like light, like warmth… and that you let good things come to you, and you let them fall on you without a fight. what if life is holding something so beautiful for you… i hope you let that be true and you let yourself believe in the beautiful as it unfolds all around you… i hope you let it all make you feel so free.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“sometimes… letting go is just noticing. a little change in your breath. how it comes a little easier from your lungs. how you feel just a little different in your skin, like it holds a little less memory of what hurt you and a little more texture of who you are. it’s just finally surrendering. giving in to the loosening of your grip on what you can no longer hold on to because it just hurts too. much. to keep holding on. so you decide it might be ok- it might be essential to start letting go. and you let go just a little bit. and then a little bit more. and you let it fall through your fingers again and again and again until you finally feel free.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image

“he said, what do you want? i said… you. he said, no. i want to know what you want… for you. i want… to search. and stretch. and grow. and glow. and drip myself in wild creativity, and burn and breathe at once in this skin. in these lungs. wings untethered, under the moon, into the sky, and to dream big and bigger and biggest, and to feel free in here… inside my anxious chest. to just. feel. free. and to have the universe say… yes, you are worthy of all this. and yes… you. …the way you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs, and who you are, and how you are, and how you think and speak and feel and exist and move, and there’s this feeling when you look at me… i think this is maybe love… how you actually give a damn about all this mess inside my head.”

Butterflies Rising
Book:she's flowers and fire
Create image