The Ghosts of Birds Quotes

“Young girls would paint themselves like parakeets. Bothersome children are like parakeets. If you dream a parakeet is lying in an oven you may be certain that soon you will die. The shells of hatched parakeets turn into maggots, which turn into lizards, which creep down the throats of sleeping people”
― Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds

“Japan: A stranger hands you a stone and asks you to hold it. Puzzled, you take it. The stone grows. And grows until you are crushed”
― Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds