Nightbird Quotes

“I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“Mean people are meaningless.”
― Alice Hoffman , Nightbird

“It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.”
― Alice Hoffman , Nightbird

“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“I’d lived my whole life without a friend. I’d just have to remember how to do that again.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“Sometimes you think you know what’s going to happen next, and then the world surprises you,”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“Mrs. Farrell told me that no man was a monster, not even Heathcliff, and that most people’s misdeeds were rooted in the treatment they’d received in the world.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“I had made the decision to stick with life as I knew it, which meant I was alone. But at least I wasn’t dumped or betrayed.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“It’s easy to keep to yourself if you hang back and always sit in the last row and slip around corners as if you were a ghost.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“From then on, I didn’t cry when I was disappointed. I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“There were nearly as many frogs in the shallows, where lily pads floated. Some water lily flowers were white and some were yellow and some were the palest pink. Dragonflies darted above the water, their iridescent wings catching the glint of the sunlight.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“She brought over a freshly brewed cup of black orchid tea and sat across from me. The tea was especially fragrant. From that day on, it was my favorite. The scent reminded me of rainy days and libraries and a jumble of gardens where there were flowers in bloom.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found."
"That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate.
Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird

“It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.”
― Alice Hoffman, Nightbird