The Bird Eater Quotes

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“what was past was past. No amount of fond memory could bring back the dead.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before…”
—Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“but the dust seemed to meander from room to room like a lazy cat, lounging on whatever it deemed convenient and comfortable.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“he couldn’t help but be hopeful that the house served as a metaphor for his own life—it was broken now, but one room at a time, it would be resurrected into something livable, bearable. It would never be as it had once been, but maybe, despite it all, it could be patched together again.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“She’d seen every episode of Dexter; she knew how psychos worked.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“A nickname he’d given her long ago, born of her penchant for all things spooky—movies, books, the Cure.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception? Or maybe crazy is crazy and I’m losing my sh—”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“a grim reminder that what was past was past. No amount of fond memory could bring back the dead.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“And yet those stairs whined as something climbed them, much like the panic that was climbing up her throat, slithering into her mouth, trying to form a scream.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Was it possible that, if there wasn’t someone present to watch a soul pass from this side to the next, that soul could become trapped by the sorrow of that very spot; wasn’t that the theory behind ghosts?”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Evangeline’s infatuation with the paranormal had taught him: the ones who believed were more receptive to the other side.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“He was lonely. He hated his life. And yet he still craved human contact. He blamed the Beatles.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Fear was supposed to be born of nightshade and thunderstorms; it wasn’t supposed to exist beneath the blue of a summer sky.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“There’s always hope, as long as you keep hoping. Nine The baseball boy twisted where he stood, moving painfully slow as he fell into a run, but Aaron was quick.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Now, with Birdie’s hands clamped against her ears, Edie Holbrook knew ghosts were real. She knew Miranda hadn’t been insane.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Aaron didn’t know if it would work, but he was determined to eat his way out of this anxiety attack, to swallow his delusions.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“But there was no God. There was no faith. No mercy, forgiveness, or love. There was only all-consuming anger that burned so hot it left nothing but grief-stricken devastation in its wake.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“She didn’t like thinking about it; hell, she was only thirty-two years old—way too young for crazy.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Was it possible that, if there wasn’t someone present to watch a soul pass from this side to the next, that soul could become trapped by the sorrow of that very spot;”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“that she didn’t have time for tonight. Sidestepping the open suitcase laid out on the bedroom floor, she fished her phone out of her bag and stared at the screen. Voice mail. She continued to pack while the call connected, but stopped when she heard Eric’s”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Cheri was shoving a final few T-shirts into the corners of an already overstuffed suitcase when her phone blipped from within the confines of her purse. Miles wasn’t home as predicted,”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Eric stared at her. “Wait, what?” He straightened in his seat. “Who attacked who?” Cheri swiped a hand across her face. “Miles attacked Aaron at first,” she said, sounding a little unsure. “But then…” She hesitated, shook her head as if to say she didn’t understand what had happened herself. “Why would”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Cheri was in one of her moods again—probably another fight with meathead Miles. Eric swore she secretly hated her husband, but the one time Eric dared question her feelings, she had flown off the handle”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“smashed that kid’s face in. I bashed his brains until they were splattered across the floor. Eric snapped his fingers to bring Aaron back around. “Earth to Holbrook.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Yes, this house is haunted,”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“but the truth of it was, he wasn’t sure if things were okay or not; and the longer he sat there, he wasn’t sure he wanted to know what was wrong. Contemplating indifference made him feel like an asshole—he and Aaron had been best friends, after all—but that had been a long time”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Aaron felt like hell—exhausted,”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“refuse to lose you again, do you understand?” He nodded faintly, a defeated acceptance. “I’m just tired,” he whispered.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“with Cooper and his old EMT buddies—after way too much drinking and Cooper asking him to slow down, only to end up driving him home—Aaron found an invoice tacked to the microwave with a corner of Scotch tape. It was for a storage unit a few blocks from home, taken out under his name with his credit card. She had left a stack of flattened boxes sitting against the wall next to the front door and a sticky note with Doctor Jandreau’s number tucked into his sock drawer. She”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater