“At times, it seems as though my soul is like a sparrow that happened to enter a child's room and got ensnared upon crashing against the wall. You represent the child, your body serves as the room, and I am the hapless soul, unwilling to break free from your body.” LoveSoulMemoriesLongingBetrayalGoodbyeFarewellSparrow Author:Shahid Hussain Raja
“Ghost bird, do you love me?" he whispered once in the dark, before he left for hs expedition training, even though he was the ghost. "Ghost bird, do you need me?" I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be. A ghost bird might be a hawk in one place, a crow in another, depending on the context. The sparrow that shot up into the blue sky one morning might transform mid-flight into an osprey the next. This was the way of things here. There were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me.” LoveNatureBirdNeedCrowHawkSparrowGhost BirdOsprey Book:Annihilation Source: Annihilation
“The single holdout in the Manafort trial was a woman linked to the Kremlin-backed intelligence agency: SPARROW. The very agency that, in 1986, and at the direction of Intelligence Officer Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, ensnared our current President.” TrumpRussiaPutinKremlinCollusionA K Kuykendall QuotesSparrowManafort Trial Author:A.K. Kuykendall
“Where can we find a worshiper who envy a sparrow or a swallow just because of their uninterrupted access to God's altar (Psalm 84:3). Our Genuineness in worship is not revealed by our physical presence in the church but by our desire of being in His Presence always and behold Him (Psalm 84:10).” DesirePresenceGenuinenessBeholdSparrowWorshiperGod S AltarPsalm 84 10Psalm 84 3 Author:Santosh Thankachan
“There is an inherent weirdness to grief. It is such a strange ride, turning us inside out, making us feel like a stranger in our life. Nothing is normal.” LifeDeathSpiritualityGriefStrangeStrangerSparrowJan Richardson Book:Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life Source: Sparrow: A Book of Life and Death and Life
“Sparrows were an interesting bird. They had dialects unique to each region they inhabited. If Waterton had a sound, it was the lonely sparrow, keening for its mate. The trill was peaceful, but melancholy.” MysteryDanika StoneWatertonDark DivideSparrowBird Calls Book:The Dark Divide Source: The Dark Divide
“I stood in a round garden with high white walls. I felt that I had seen it before, but I couldn't remember where. Trees ringed the edge of the garden; all around me were great hedges of rosebushes, blossoming in cascades of crimson, white, and red-tipped gold flowers. Overflowing petals lay spattered on the ground beneath them. The light was a liquid, living thing that swirled and eddied through the leaves, rustling them like wind. In the corner of my eye, I thought it had shaped itself into figures that stood watching with still, perilous attention-- but when I looked, they were gone. Before me stood a dried bush, barely more than a skeleton, just a few brown leaves clinging to its twigs. On the topmost branch perched a brown-and-gray sparrow, its black eyes bright. Thank you for the crumbs, it said. My throat itched and stuck to itself as I swallowed. "You," I whispered. "You're the Lar of this house.” LightNatures BeautySparrowHoly Place Book:Cruel Beauty Source: Cruel Beauty