Bird Box Quotes

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“You are saving their lives for a life not living.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Is he friendly?” Tom says quietly. “I’ve discovered,” Jules says, “that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Man is the creature he fears.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Your baby is smarter than you think.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“dedication Sometimes I wish I were an architect, so that I could dedicate a building to a person; a superstructure that broke the clouds and continued up into the abyss. And if Bird Box were made of bricks instead of letters, I’d host a ceremony, invite every shadowy memory I have, and cut the ribbon with an axe, letting everyone see for the first time that building’s name. It’d be called the Debbie. Mom, Bird Box is for you.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Robin was a great kid. Smarter than her father at eight years old. She liked the oddest things. Like the instructions for a toy more than the toy itself. The credits of a movie instead of the movie. The way something was written. An expression on my face. Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, ‘No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it’s dark outside.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“This,’ Malorie says, placing a bloodied hand on the Girl’s head, ‘this is Olympia.’ The Girl looks at Malorie quickly. She blushes. She smiles. She likes it. ‘And this,’ Malorie says, pressing the Boy to her body, ‘is Tom.’ He grins, shy and happy.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Your worries only keep you safe long enough to worry some more.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“The children have never seen the world outside their home. Not even through the windows. And Malorie hasn’t looked in more than four years. Four years.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“One day, the pain your mother and the pain every mother speaks of will come to you in the same form: childbirth. Only a women can experience it and because of this all women are bonded.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“I don’t think it’s a matter of one man being better prepared than another,’ Gary is saying. ‘I think of it more like a 3-D movie. At first, the audience thinks the objects are really coming at them. They hold their hands up for protection. But the intelligent ones, the ones who are very aware, know they were safe all along.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“it’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“There's no need to live like this, miss. Consider these children. Would you rob them the chance to view a brisk, beautiful day like this?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“I’m the only one here with the nerve to look outside. Your worries only keep you safe long enough to worry some more.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“You are saving their lives for a life not worth living.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“You tell yourself you’ve waited four years because you were afraid to lose the house forever. You tell yourself you waited four years because you wanted to train the children first. But neither of these are true. You waited four years because here, on this trip, on this river, where madmen and wolves lurk, where creatures must be near, on THIS DAY you will have to do something you haven’t done outside in even longer than four years. Today you’re going to have to open your eyes. Outside.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“It talked about irreconcilable life-forms. Two worlds whose compounds were entirely foreign might cause damage to one another if they were to cross paths.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“We've lost mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers," Rodney Barrett is saying. "We've lost wives and husbands, lovers and friends. But nothing stings as much as the children you've taken from us. How dare you ask a child to look at you?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Creatures...infinity...our minds have ceilings, Malorie...these things...they are beyond it...higher than it...out of reach...out of—”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Malorie is able to smile, and sometimes even laugh, despite the unfathomable horrors that have become commonplace.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box