Confined Quote by Nicolas Bentley

“The Swooping Birds that Caught Her Eyes”

— Hugh Howey

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic…

— Tove Jansson

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared…

— Mohsin Hamid

“They were halfway across the road when a birdcall tugged her back, pulling at some strange, secret part of her. A crow, she thought,…

— Emilia Hart

“Those ceaselessly pulsing pupils disturbed him, but it seemed to him, vaguely, that behind the animal shallows of her gaze was a shutter -…

— C.L. Moore

“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were…

— D.H. Lawrence

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees…

— Henry Williamson

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

The black crow thinketh her own birds white.

— Gavin Douglas

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big…

— Jeannette Walls