Birds Quote by Alice Hoffman

“The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her ribs, beating…

— Kiersten White

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with…

— Simon Van Booy

“She couldn’t go looking for loss. Of any kind. Because it would awaken those old feelings, the ones she kept tightly coiled inside, the…

— B.A. Shapiro

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“...the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She felt very young, at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything, at the same time was outside, looking…

— Virginia Woolf

“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…

— Virginia Woolf

“The thing was, if you wanted to survive you had to keep going. Even when it hurt. Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to…

— Priscilla Cummings

“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken…

— Joan London

“He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.”

— Sadie Jones

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so that she could see the stars. They always eased her lonesomeness. She…

— Kristin Cashore

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood