“you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs”
– butterflies rising
Another way to ‘keep your heart wilder than wild’ is to be in wild love. the butterflies rising quote ‘you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs’ is a quote about wild and passionate love that butterflies rising derived from an essay that was in her first book ‘wild spirit, soft heart’. The essay was titled ‘all of the butterflies and adrenaline highs’ and it was included in the book with her quote ‘she’s always preferred sunrises over sunsets’ in the book. The quote then inspired a longer prose poem called ‘all this mess inside my head’, where she changed the line to ‘the way you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs’ and also published as a stand-alone love quote of ‘you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs.’ The full poem is about love that allows you to ‘keep your heart wilder than wild’ through independence and wholeness and how someone giving you freedom and also seeing you in your wholeness can make you even more passionate about them, hence the line ‘you give me butterflies and adrenaline highs’.
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