Home > Work > The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1) QUOTES

The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1) QUOTES

1 " Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

2 " I think a trauma doesn’t stop just because you’ve been rescued. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

3 " What choice are you making, Desmond?”
“I don’t think I’m making any choice right now.”
“Then you’re automatically making the wrong ones.” He straightened, mouth open to protest, but I held up my hand. “Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

4 " Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

5 " Beauty loses its meaning when you’re surrounded by too much of it. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

6 " My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

7 " Listen to what isn’t being said. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

8 " I’m not a fake person; I’m carefully and genuinely handcrafted. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

9 " The trouble with sociopaths, really, is that you never know where they draw their boundaries. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

10 " Some wanted the freedom to be anyone they wanted, some of us wanted the freedom to be left alone. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

11 " And that stupid little girl stood in the winter and kept lighting matches to catch glimpses of families that weren’t—could never be—hers and froze to death in those harsh moments of reality between matches, because even though matches can burn, they’re light, not heat. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

12 " Sometimes you can look at a wedding and realize with a certain sense of resignation that any children produced in that marriage will inevitably be fucked up and fucked over. It’s a fact, not a sense of foreboding so much as a grim acceptance that these two people should not—but definitely will—reproduce. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

13 " You seem to have this strange image of me as a lost child, like I’ve just been thrown on the side of the road like garbage, or roadkill, but kids like me? We’re not lost. We may be the only ones who never are. We always know exactly where we are and where we can go. And where we can’t. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

14 " If you don’t look at the bad thing, the bad thing can’t see you, right? "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

15 " If you’ve seen enough, you just look older, no matter what the rest of your face looks like. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

16 " The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep, "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

17 " Our choices make us who we are, "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

18 " Let's call me a shadow child, overlooked rather than broken. I'm the teddy bear gathering dust bunnies under the bed, not the one-legged soldier. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

19 " So not only was I self-sufficient, I came to have a pretty low opinion of most people’s intelligence. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

20 " What wasn’t known was created, what wasn’t created eventually ceased to matter. "

― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)