“All of us have experiences that could change our lives if we let them: love, offered suddenly, turning from the mantelpiece, as Demlore Schwartz put it.  And that, oddly, was the way it was with me and the butterflies.  Not love, exactly, offered suddenly, but a similar quickening of the heart and desire — in this case a desire to know, if knowledge was not only information and understanding but experience.  I could feel those butterflies tugging on my imagination as if it were a loose sleeve.”

Excerpt from the book I am reading, Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern.

Image © Andrew Winning/Reuters

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