Quotes About Fluttering

The moths were fluttering all over the sign at the desk that read DASHIELL QWERTY, SUB-LIBRARIAN. He was younger than I think of librarians as being, younger than the father of anyone I knew, and he had the hairstyle one gets if one is attacked by a scissors-carrying maniac and lives to tell the tale.

The dazzled girl's eyelashes were fluttering so hard she could only have seen Nicky in stop-go animation.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon: