Ghosts Quote by Zoë Brigley (Thompson

“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a…

— Eileen Chang

“Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn’t chase the…

— Cornelia Funke

“In the morning she found pieces of a bird chopped and scattered by the fan blood sprayed onto the mosquito net, its body leaving…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Girl from the fifth floor, who feeds the birds every day, climbs up to the water tank and jumps off. I see her body…

— Amruta Patil

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

— Sadie Jones

“When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..”

— Munia Khan

“Concealed from the public eye, snug within his coffin, Mr Bird looked as he had looked in life. Despite his size and the flowing…

— William Trevor

“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

“Here was the same murmuring quiet, broken only by an occasional whisper, the faint thud of a librarian stamping books or overdue notices, the…

— Stephen King

“Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of…

— Ma Jian

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

— Lorrie Moore

“Pain has been and grief enough and bitterness and crying, Sharp ways and stony ways I think it was she trod; But all there…

— Margaret Widdemer