City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Lorrie Moore

“Murder of crows. Horrible term, considering the circumstances. Why couldn’t they be flocks like other birds?”

— Jaime Jo Wright

“Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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

— Sadie Jones

“We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Birds are the lunatics of the animal world.”

— Victor Lodato

“Victims, he thought, were birds and animals and people who arrived at the wrong place at the wrong time, usually in too big a…

— John D. MacDonald

“That was the thing about being a captive bird...You learned to adapt, and before you knew it your captivity seemed normal. If you were…

— Suzanne Fisher Staples

“It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.”

— Bart Baker

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

— Andre Jordan

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

— Stephanie Burgis