Childhood Quote by Yukio Mishima

“It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.”

— Bart Baker

“though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken?”

— Lorrie Moore

“There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death.”

— Donna Tartt

“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some…

— Katherine Catmull

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

— Stephanie Burgis

“The flock of birds always living in her chest these days had been startled. They flund themselves against the confines of her ribs, beating…

— Kiersten White

“While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers,”

— George R.R. Martin

“The early bird ate too many worms and died.”

— Andre Jordan

“Now my heart is desperate in my chest, like a bird crashing into a window over and over again, confused that it can't get…

— Liz Reinhardt

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

— Sadie Jones

“What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.”

— Tom Perrotta

“Little birds of thought die in her throat.”

— Annie G. Rogers