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Sonya Hartnett has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with…
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There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.
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Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or…
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Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.
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A small town has as many eyes as a fly
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A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.
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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
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My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move,…
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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer,…
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She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of…
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More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is…
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I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is…
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
— Maya Angelou
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I know why the caged bird sings.
— Maya Angelou
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I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
— Arthur Darvill
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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the…
— Germaine Greer
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the…
— Maya Angelou
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Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his…
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
— Tennessee Williams
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No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and…
— Sonya Hartnett
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Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.
— Unknown Author
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