Birds Quote by Cecilia Llompart

““Consider the road, long and forked as the Devil’s own tongue. Consider the Devil, burning every bridge; Placing in every tree a black bird. In every bird a black thought.””

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“That dandy, the sky, enters blue-suited sun like a scotch in hand.”

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“Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs. The wind moves like a wounded animal. The ground must be full of teeth by now.”

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