Quotes About Lightning bugs

Batty ran up, her hands cupped together. "I caught one named Horatio," she said, and spread open her hands. A lightning bug balanced uncertainly on her thumb. "Look, he's blinking," said Jane. "He's trying to tell us something in Morse code." "What?" asked Batty. "Please... let... me... go," said Jane.

When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really seen or felt it. So I would try and catch it in jars. When that failed, I captured jars and jars of lightening bugs and told her that if we could catch enough of them, then it would look like the sun. She'd laugh, hug me, and then set them free and tell me that nothing should have to live its life in a cage. (Cassandra)

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.