Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Will looked back at me, startled, and I kept my heart muscle strong, feeling something inside me shiver like a pale green flower shoot…

— Ingrid Law

“So, are you in the tree for any particular reason or are you indulging a long-held desire to be a bird?”

— Mandy Goff

“I went walking really early in the morning, you know when stars are yawning and closing their eyes, and flowers and grass begin to…

— Jonathan Renshaw

“It was a curious thing about the past--how it lay in wait for you, quietly, invisibly, almost as though it weren't there. You might…

— John Verdon

“The palm stands on the edge of space. The wind moves slowly in the branches. The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.”

— Wallace Stevens

“But then the dove of hope began its downward slope And I believed for a moment that my chances Were approaching to be grabbed…

— Fiona Apple

“She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things…

— Susanna Kearsley

“You know, birds always find their way home, no matter the distance. Perhaps you will, too.”

— M.A. Kuzniar

“Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle’s wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.”

— Chris Galford

“So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole…

— Julie Kagawa

“At the time I vaguely knew that when anything stirs us that deeply, moves us to the point of distraction, and urgently invites us…

— Karol Jackowski

“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open. I…

— Madeline Miller