Quotes of: Birds Keyword

The moment he laid eyes on Kuga, I knew. There's a reason I'm doing this to him. I want to see it; how he's fallen in love with a guy, and how he makes him his own. And then what I've done will become a sharp knife, thrown right back at me. That's ri...

Twittering Birds Never Fly, Vol.1

If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill ...

Where the Bird Sings Best

Kumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the flesh and brutal torture. Throu...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky. Now and then, a shooting star would trace a bright arc across the heavens. The longer I watched, though, the more nervous it made m...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

No se debe oponer resistencia a la corriente: hay que ir hacia arriba cuando hay que ir hacia arriba, y hacia abajo cuando hay que ir hacia abajo. Cuando debas ir hacia arriba, busca la torre más alta y sube hasta la cúspide. Cuando debas ir hacia ...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you som...

Charles Baudelaire

Hermione Granger: How does it feel, Harry? When you see Dean with Ginny? Harry Potter: [slightly taken aback] Oh. Um... Hermione Granger: I know. I've seen the way you look at her. You're my best friend. [Ron bursts in with Lavender, laughing, then s...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Saying of the Prophet Oppression When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Caravan of Dreams

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The Complete Essays

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

The Collected Poems

...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...

A Familiar Rain

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

We turned into each other’s best excuse for not doing the things we were afraid of.

The Gravity of Birds

The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.

Birds of America

It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.

Bird Box

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

Bird Dance

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

The Blue Lion; And Other Essays

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Bird of Paradise