81 Quotes by Sonya Hartnett
"No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'."
"There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world."
"I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant."
"It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave."
"Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing."
"You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive."
"Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing."
"She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled."