Animals Quote by Malcolm Lowry

“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.”

— Gregory Benford

It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red.…

— Lauren Oliver

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.

— Hannah Kent

What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note.…

— James Joyce

When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where…

— Eudora Welty

“was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens…

— Lauren Oliver

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

— Steven Wright

“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke: their leaves…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

At the approach of spring the red squirrels got under my house, two at a time, directly under my feet as I sat reading…

— Anonymous

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the…

— Edith Wharton

Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed…

— Emily Dickinson