Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to come.”

— Ludovic Halévy

“Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of…

— Cassandra Clare

“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself.…

— Michael Cunningham

“Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.”

— veronica rossi

“Butter melting on a dish meant someone nearby was in love, and a bird in the house take your bad luck out the window.”

— Alice Hoffman

“But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in…

— Graham Greene

“Death is her name, Who walks in her garden of fame, And plucks flowers for her lock, Which has the power to ride a…

— Vinod Varghese Antony

“[From Old Mortality ] ...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.”

— Sadie Jones

“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick’s coffin…

— Alice Hoffman

“She would die like some bird in a frost gripping her perch.”

— Virginia Woolf

“And, father, how can I love you Or any of my brothers more? I love you like the little bird That picks up crumbs…

— William Blake