The Midnight Zoo Quotes

“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'.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Midnight Zoo

“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.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Midnight Zoo

“It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Midnight Zoo

“Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren’t.”
― Sonya Hartnett, The Midnight Zoo

“Tutto cospirava contro di lui, tutto puntava alla sua sconfitta. Premette il corpo contro le sbarre, stanco fino al midollo. Stanco di nascondersi e vivere di sotterfugi, stanco di essere preso in giro dalla fortuna. Stanco di preoccuparsi, di prendere decisioni, di essere responsabile, di essere costretto a resistere. Stanco di vedersi sottrarre le cose. Stanco della tristezza che aveva nel cuore.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Lo zoo di mezzanotte