Cinderella Quote by Shirley Hughes

“I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills.”

— Naoise Dolan

“Again and again I heard birds calling, just begging to be eaten.”

— Stephanie Burgis

“They gulped, those stupid birds; they ate from the bag and they swallowed with glee. And they choked on giant mouthfuls of my shit.…

— Garth Stein

“The parrot eyed me cautiously, like he was forming a vague memory of unhappier times, before Jimmy Buffett and ganja. "Noisy bastard," he decided.”

— Rick Riordan

“Geep,' whuppled the parrot.”

— James Thurber

“All right, I thought, as one long-winded winner ("And I'd like to thanks my parakeet and his veterinarian...") finally exited”

— J.M. Redmann

“Everyone else—neighbors, friends, parents of friends—is looking at me like I’ve just bitten the head off their pet parakeet and stuck it on the…

— Rick Springfield

“He made a low, unhappy, sound in the back of his throat as he followed, and I felt my own spirits lift at his…

— Adrianne Brooks

“He puffed out his pigeon chest and waddled across the room towards me. With his feet pointing outwards, he looked like a fat duck…

— Chris Thrall

“She put him near the front door and a number of visitors were surprised that he would not answer to the name 'Polly', which…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He seems to be a bird of few words.”

— Kendare Blake

“He made a tck noise in the back of his throat. It expressed all sorts of annoyance and impatience, with just a smidgen of an implied…

— Katie MacAlister