Quote by Bernhard Schlink

“A bright gray sky woke me, sunlight diffused through high thin clouds. That, and the extraordinarily cheerful sound of some bird I did not…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds…

— Tana French The Likeness

“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were…

— D.H. Lawrence

“...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I leave the house tomorrow only…

— Jack Kerouac

“The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance,…

— Oscar Wilde

“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

— Margaret Atwood

“...somewhere, nearby voices filled with dusk, cabs and panhandlers and one drunken girl screeching like a wounded bird - all of it flushed with…

— Marisha Pessl

“It was warm, and outside the sound of insects in the night was electric. The music sounded better than anything I'd ever heard. I…

— Andrew Smith

“That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o