“To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song”
“Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.”
“Eat an apple,sing a song,Don't touch a snake as it wriggles along.Run for an hour, walk for a day,Hark to the birds and heed what they say.”
“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.”
“As a little girl she had liked looking at her palms against the light, the red peeking through her closed fingers. Once she had shown it to her father and he had kissed her fingertips, pretending to eat them.”
“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.”