Fireflies Quotes

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.

What a nice night for an evening.

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.