Birds Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.”

— Tom Perrotta

“Again and again I heard birds calling, just begging to be eaten.”

— Stephanie Burgis

“They gulped, those stupid birds; they ate from the bag and they swallowed with glee. And they choked on giant mouthfuls of my shit.…

— Garth Stein

“The early bird ate too many worms and died.”

— Andre Jordan

“And the rats eat my face. So what.”

— Sarah Kane

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“She looks skeptical. “A bird attacked you?”     “Not quite.” I give a chagrined sigh. “A bird shit in my eye.”

— Autumn Doughton

“I was forced to eat crow. I was so embarrassed that I would have eaten any other bird, including ostrich.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Nearly never kills a bird”

— Harper Lee

“They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart…

— Yukio Mishima

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

— Sadie Jones

“Wild birds die in cages.”

— Katherine Arden