This quote captures a sense of lightness and joy through vivid imagery. The phrase "a beautiful day" sets a positive and serene tone, suggesting an experience filled with clarity and happiness. The comparison to the "buoyancy of a bird" evokes feelings of effortless movement and freedom, highlighting an emotional uplift akin to the way birds float gracefully in the air. Capote's use of the word "buoyancy" not only emphasizes physical lightness but also suggests an emotional state of optimism and hope. Overall, the quote encapsulates a moment of natural beauty and inner elevation, inviting the reader to embrace a carefree and spirited outlook.
“Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.”
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.”
“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. ”
“So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived”
“Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”
“Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented.”