Nightingale's Nest Quotes

“music stopped, and I felt my heart constrict, like I’d lost something precious. I took another step, and another, until I could see through the leaves. That’s when I realized the singer was a person. A little girl. She was plain, with brown hair the same color as mine. But hers was ratted around her face like she’d never seen a brush, and she had dirt smeared across her cheeks and nose. Too thin, I thought, as she climbed over the edge of the bundled mess of sticks and out onto a branch to see me better. She was awfully close to the slender branches that I knew wouldn’t hold the weight of a kid, even a skinny little girl. I had to get her to come down before”
― Nikki Loftin, Nightingale's Nest