"I glance at the exit across the room. I want out. The bird in my chest is crashing up against its cage. I can feel the heavy thump, thump, thump of its feverish body inside and I open my mouth, not to speak, but to let the bird out so I can breathe."

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Source : Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Han Nolan

#Bird Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Exit Quotes

“Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken”
“But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...”

Source : Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville-West (2004). “The Garden”, Frances Lincoln Limited
“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”
“Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.”
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
“Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough.”
“Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.”
“Succeeding in business is all about making connections”

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