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“Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.”

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

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Everything Is Illuminated

In this novel, a young man named Jonathan Safran Foer embarks on a journey to find a woman who saved his grandfather during World War II. The story is told through a combination of fictional and real historical elements, weaving together personal and collective narratives to create a rich tapestry of storytelling. more

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American writer known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. His works often blend historical, literary, and philosophical elements, exploring themes such as family, memory, and identity. more

“O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.”

“Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.”

Fall Water Sea Wind Mountain Bird Breaths Winter Hills Rising Provinces Hemlock Falling Water

Book:Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

Source: Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

“You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boyor girl.”

Ifs Littles Beautiful Lying Dies Fall Girl Air Tree Bird Raises Brave Painful Little Boys Hummingbirds

Author:Zachary Schomburg

“A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.”

Three Lost Sound Saws Sky Huge Mountain Lows Bird Standing Distance Scales Endless Impression Hills Landscape Range Standing Out Flew Herds Deer Mute Slopes Miniatures

Book:The Hare

Source: The Hare

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

Running Beautiful Hours Flower Couple Tomorrow Right Now Bird Smoke Crap Rotten Stink Bulldozers

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.”

Wells Said Challenges Heard Kings Prove Bird Horse Thrones Chamber Burial Undead Stepping Away

Author:Ernest Cline

“...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.”

“The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.”

Children Joy Animal Creation Poet Bird Awake Lyrical

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.”

Ifs Years Firsts Left Common Tree Amount Bird First Time Woods Accord Flew

Book:Tenth of December: Stories

Source: Tenth of December: Stories

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