“like the way a bird can sometimes swallow the horizon whole.”
“The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.”
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
“Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!”
“Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?""Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.”
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?”