“She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.”

“Her optimism flew high, not only for her eventual cure of which she was sure, but for everything that would happen to her henceforth. That too, she knew was a characteristic of the tubercular - the very quality , in fact, which made them such interesting patients.”

“Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.”

“he was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction”

“He'd been crazy about her for more years than he cared to admit. Unfortunately, he knew nothing would ever come of it, so he would have to settle for proximity and hope that like a mold or a fungus, he would eventually grow on her.”

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”