Bird Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

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“The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism”

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Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

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“I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. I don't even need to…

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I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for…

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Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and…

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Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my…

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I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

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“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

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I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

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“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to…

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I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

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Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares…

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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and…

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great…

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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

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

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When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

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