The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

by Dot Hutchison

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

I liked the fairy tales. Not the watered-down Disney shit, or the sanitized Perrault versions. I liked the real ones, where horrible things happened to everyone and you really understood it wasn’t intended for children.”

“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way.”

“Collectors don’t let butterflies fly free. It defeats the purpose.”