Bird Quote by Henry Williamson

“She had no obligations; she roamed outdoors, sniffing the flora and chasing the fauna, her mind filled with images, smells, colors, and myths borne…

— Isabel Allende

“She slept beneath a tree that night, sitting upright. She imagined she would have been scared for her life out in the open, for…

— Alice Hoffman

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

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us…

— Laurie Lee

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank.…

— Arundhati Roy

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“She grew up in the ordinary paradise of the English countryside. When she was five she walked to school, two miles, across meadows covered…

— A.S. Byatt

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“She knew even before she opened her eyes that she was home—or not home, but in her woods at least. She knew they were…

— Joe Hill

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up…

— Haruki Murakami

Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what…

— Elizabeth Strout