The Butterfly House Quotes

“Lies tend to settle over the heart like plastic wrap, making it hard for the love to breathe.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“The butterfly that draws the least attention to itself is the most dangerous.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“In this moment, she would be god.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“Couldn’t a pill help me?” Esther held up a hand defensively. “A happy pill?” “You mean an antidepressant?” He smiled wryly, setting his notepad down on the highly polished desk in front of the window. “Those doesn’t make people happy, only relieve the acute crisis for those suffering from depression.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“It’s like I’m sort of numb on the inside, like I’m stuck,” she said. “I’m not doing badly. I’m just not really doing well, either.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“Copenhagen is a dormant plant that lives off the scant sunlight falling on its leaves.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“Jeppe’s head fell. Damn it! Why do we insist on embracing our parents with sawblades on our arms?”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“When you’re seventeen, the world should be like a buffet of options.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House

“At 4:00 p.m. it started raining again, so heavily that it sounded like someone vacuuming.”
― Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House