Paper Butterflies Quotes

“Forgiveness is easy,' he says. 'It's just like a door. You open it and walk through.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Will she still love me?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘Even after what I did?’ ‘Yes.’ He looks at me. ‘You are loved, June. You are precious.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“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.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“You’re still beautiful,”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Blister takes a deep breath. ‘I love you, June.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Holding on to it will only poison you. Haven’t they done enough damage already?”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“But if I do, it feels like they’re getting away with it all.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“My Blister is kissing me.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“But Megan hurt me.’ My tears are sudden and angry. ‘I know.’ ‘I don’t feel sorry for her.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“But at what point is a child to blame?”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Life's unfair at times... but you mustn't let the bad weigh your life down. Try to fill the other side of the scales with good things.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Suffering produces endurance... And endurance produces character and character produces hope... And hope does not put us to shame.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies

“Do you think there's a heaven?" I ask.
"I know there is," he says. He's so sure. "Otherwise, what would be the point?"
"To life?"
"Yeah. And it wouldn't be fair, otherwise. Some people die as babies, others live to a hundred. It wouldn't be fair if that was it. You've got to have somewhere to go on to.”
― Lisa Heathfield, Paper Butterflies