The Flightless Birds of New Hope Quotes

“Birds remind me that the best things never last. Their lives are short. Ours too. Loss is a part it. But that’s what makes everything so . . . worth noticing.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“it was the kind of saccharine consolation offered to someone about to make the kind of mistake they couldn’t walk back from, a sticky, cloying Werther’s caramel meant to tempt someone back from the edge: Please, dear, life is actually worth living—see? Here’s a candy. But maybe, sometimes, that was all anyone could offer: a caramel, a platitude, a placeholder for the hope they didn’t quite know how else to give. Something small and inelegant, maybe even absurd—but something, nonetheless.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“Aden immediately clocked the vendor: a man with spiked blond hair and a pair of cheap tinted sunglasses around his neck. With an orange skin tint representing far too many trips to the tanning bed, he looked more like an Ozempic Guy Fieri than an inventor.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“And in that moment, Coco felt like a reflection of him: something trying to survive in a too-often senseless world. Something that just wanted affection—wanted to be seen. By anyone.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“I fear that, as a society, we do not give our animal companions enough credit for what they can teach us. For what they reveal about us. But throughout history, our interactions with animals have been profound reminders of our essential capacity for empathy.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“But to Aden, loss was just . . . loss. A void you couldn’t fill. Something that didn’t transform you or teach you anything. It just sat there, quiet and permanent, swallowing whatever you tried to build around it.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“kindness is never wasted.”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope

“Sometimes praying isn’t just about reaching God’s ears”
― Farah Naz Rishi, The Flightless Birds of New Hope