Sam

“and I thought how fucking unfair it was that he made us butterflies, of all things. Real butterflies could fly away, out of reach. The Gardener’s Butterflies could only ever fall, and that but rarely.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“boys who had been born on third base and thought they hit a triple (as my mother often quoted),”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

“Beauty loses its meaning when you’re surrounded by too much of it.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Inara is quieter than Bliss, not shy or withdrawn, just . . . more patient, I suppose. Bliss explores a situation by lighting a match and letting it explode. Inara watches first, observes. She waits to speak until she knows what she wants to say and has a healthy guess as to how others will react to it.”
― Dot Hutchison, Roses of May