Goodbye Birdie Greenwing Quotes

“Behind each door, cardboard people are sleeping, unaware of how fragile their lives are,”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

“If love could be bottled, if the strength to do for others what they cannot do for themselves could be plucked and pickled and tapped into veins, maybe no one would die of cancer. Maybe Ada could have kept her child, with her mother’s devotion fuelling her. But, like her patients, it was her body. It was her choice. It will always be her choice.”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

“Get up, Min,’ Birdie says. ‘Your daughters need you. All you have is a case of the lonelies. I know it well, believe me. It’s a pig of a virus, but it won’t kill you. You’ve just had too much time on your own. Too much time to think. Nothing ages you like heartache.”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

“And if hopes and wishes were loaves and fishes, we’d all swim in riches,’ her mother used to say.”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

“Once upon a time, time used to fly. She and Arthur were forever late to train stations and appointments, chasing clocks like a runaway tissue on the breeze, Birdie’s skirt flapping as they ran. ‘Where did it go?’ they used to say to one another. When Arthur and Rose left, time changed. Birdie has sat through never-ending nights. Days that forgot to draw in. Suns that refused to set and midnights that lingered. Time is all Birdie has had for so long, her hands are sticky with it. Hours and years are clogged up under her wedding band. A whole decade under her thumbnail.”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

“What do you do when your life has been given an expiry date?”
― Ericka Waller, Goodbye Birdie Greenwing