“Think testosterone,’ says Matthew, ‘multiply it by πr2 and double it. Forget boys locked in boarding schools. They’ve spent ten months as a caterpillar waiting for this. They’ve pupated, they’re mature and they’re desperate. They’re squaddies in the disco on a Saturday night. They’re sailors in port after a nine-month voyage.”
“Nobody ever suspects the butterfly.”
“A butterfly shimmered in its flight, a buttercup that had learned to reach the heavens.”
“Loving you just crept up on me, and before I knew it, I was head over heels for you” (Novak).”
“In the silence of the woods among the wildflowers butterflies danced.”
“Among the varied species of insects, butterflies are the most poetic.”