Lauren Oliver Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Struggle, Mean

• I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

  Lauren Oliver

  Baby, Hands, Bird

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.203, Hachette UK

• The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

  Lauren Oliver

  Jumping, Hair, Yelling

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