Hope for the Flowers is an allegorical novel written by Trina Paulus.
This novel was first published in 1972 and reflects the idealism of the counterculture of the period.
The story is a love story between two caterpillars who become butterflies.
Here are 9 best quotes from Hope for the Flowers novel.
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Best Hope for the Flowers Quotes
“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“We have a nice home and we love each other and that’s enough.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“Since we’re neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“”Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?”
“It’s what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
Other Books Quotes: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah Quotes by Richard Bach and Misery Quotes by Stephen King.
Famous Hope for the Flowers Quotes
“How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively.
‘You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.’
‘You mean to die?’ asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.
‘Yes and No,’ he answered.
‘What looks like you will die, but what’s really you will still live.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“We can fly!
“We can become butterflies!
“There’s nothing at the top
and it doesn’t matter!”
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the “top” he
must fly, not climb.”
~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
“Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.
For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.
‘Imagine, I didn’t even know I could do this. That’s some encouragement that i’mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons – maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too.” ~ Trina Paulus (Hope for the Flowers).
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