Action Quote by Don DeLillo

Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in…

— Mervyn Peake

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the…

— Terry Kay

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

— Kristin Cashore

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid…

— Nora Roberts

“The Swooping Birds that Caught Her Eyes”

— Hugh Howey

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

“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

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to…

— John Milton

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me,…

— George MacDonald

The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn,…

— Victor Hugo

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a…

— Edith Wharton

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world…

— Virginia Woolf