Bird Quote by Orlando Gibbons

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang…

— Orlando Gibbons

Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed, as death…

— John Flanagan

“Lately, it had been an endless procession of long, black nights and gray mornings, when her sense of failure swept over her like a…

— Fannie Flagg

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her…

— Phineas Fletcher

“Her breath caught in her throat, for she heard the clatter of death waiting to fall.”

— Kate Danley

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew…

— Tonya Hurley

“Agnes Carmichael, who turns out to be the killer, hasn’t spoken a word – hardly surprising, as she’s a deaf mute.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“There were silences as murmurous as sound. There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to be snatched back to oblivion…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

— Zora Neale Hurston

She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her…

— Emily Dickinson

“Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal,…

— Joan Abelove

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason…

— Gregory Maguire