Paper Butterflies
Lisa Heathfield
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Forgiveness is easy,' he says. 'It's just like a door. You open it and walk through.”
“I've learnt that if you're careful, you can hold a butterfly in your hand. And that even if it's been trapped, frightened, in a jar, it still has a chance to survive. Because a butterfly with a broken wing can still fly.”
“Some things in life can seem really tough...There are things that seem like a mountain and you can't find a way round it, yet don't have the energy to go over it, either. You always find a way, though, eventually. Us humans are very strong underneath it all.”
“It’s your choice, June. It’s your life and you get to choose your path. Carry your past down the difficult route, or take your past from your shoulders, leave it here and walk down the other road.”
“You can love someone deeply, but somehow not always do the right thing by them. People have flaws. We get so much wrong. Maybe if you try to understand him as a human being with faults then you can move forward.”
“Suffering produces endurance,’ he reads. ‘And endurance produces character and character produces hope.’ I feel his hand gently on my back. ‘And hope does not put us to shame.”
“And if you face every day with hope, then you’ve already won,’ Mickey says. Hope. Like a bird, it flies too high above me. ‘What if I don’t know what to hope for any more?’ I ask quietly. Mickey takes my hand in hers. ‘Perhaps hope on its own is enough.”
“You have to start by forgiving yourself.’ His words fall heavily around me. ‘That’s not possible.’ ‘It is. It takes strength and courage and you have those, June.”
“Will she still love me?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘Even after what I did?’ ‘Yes.’ He looks at me. ‘You are loved, June. You are precious.”
“Suffering produces endurance... And endurance produces character and character produces hope... And hope does not put us to shame.”
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Book Keywords:
faith, moving-on, hope, forgiveness
