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“He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I like them all.Yeah?Yeah.He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water.Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.”

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Carrie Jones

Carrie Jones, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her works in genres such as fantasy, young adult literature, and science fiction. Her writing has garnered a wide readership and critical acclaim. more

“Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.”

Thinking Looks Said Care Culture Christ Answers Perfect Worry Hell Saws Air Tomorrow Bird Overwhelming Dedicated Gathering Reap Barns Sowing Admonition

Author:Daniel Quinn

“And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!”

Body Grief Wife Blood Tears Son Bird Red Rounds Soil Cheeks Orphan Good Wife Soaking Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Author:Homer

“I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.”

Years Two Different Bits Five Grew Fit Grew Up Bird Attraction Five Years Parakeets

Author:Jim Parsons

“In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.”

Lost Cities Cry Arms Bird Blue Expected Flesh Worried Maps Shade Squares Stillness Sunlight Tourists Venice Flocks Pavement Dreamy Oar Swaying

Book:The Newton Letter

Source: The Newton Letter

“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.”

People Believe Heart Said Stills Dream Would Be Black Memories Grief Sky Tears Bird Built Towns Moved Parks Good Place Scarves Atlas Mortar

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.”

Book Bird Red Wings Yellow Feathers Red And Yellow

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.”

Way Giving Looks Heart Littles Light Faces Interesting Imagine Position My Heart Bird Shadow Surprise Flesh Etc Cheeks Angle Looking Good Eyebrows Surprise Me

Author:Siegfried Woldhek

“It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species through intimidation. That's why the single most important thing you can do as a human is to dominate an animal. Need more proof?Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. I'd say that about covers it.”

Needs Humans Important Moving Can Do Animal Clear Air Sea Creatures Pages Bird Important Things Species Fishes British Proof Empires Intimidation Living Creatures British Empire

Author:Stephen Colbert

“They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.”

Giving Together Advice Bird Hills Chatter Cypresses

Book:Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Source: Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

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