I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky Quotes

“He wanted to call it madness, but knew better. If this was madness, it wasn’t his, nor even Cecil’s. It was a madness that had anchored itself into the world, hiding in plain sight, and he was only now waking up to it.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“A new truth doesn’t win out by convincing its opponents it’s right. They’re too entrenched, even when it’s obvious how wrong they are. The truth just has to outlive them, wait for them to clear out of the way, until what’s left are the people who grow up familiar with it.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“He knew why the birds chose not to fly away, lingering until it was no longer an option. Did they see themselves flying as high as eagles? Everything needed a dream of itself as greater than it was.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“Enkidu never should’ve killed the guardian of the forest. He should’ve joined him. That’s what too much civilizing does to you.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“Things beneath the earth could always endure time better than those above it.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“On the page in the book in the cabin on the mountain was a picture of an ant with what appeared to be a twig caught on its head, a twig tipped with a prickly looking bulb. But on the scale of ants, even what resembled a twig would be tiny. So the man looked, but did not see. He was supposed to know so much more about everything by now.
“What am I looking at here?”
The boy was patient with him, his slowness to comprehend. “That stick-looking thing? That’s a fungus growing into the ant’s head. Basically, it uses the ant as its legs to get around so it can do what needs doing.”
The man stared at the ant, trying to divine anything he could from its little button eyes. At first he felt sympathy for it, then realized no, what he felt was kinship. The ant was lucky. He was lucky. Briefly, he wondered if his thoughts were really his own.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“Timothy supposed this was what you got when you crossed youthful idealism with anger and a sense of futility. And weed.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“Too many people around here, they’ve lost themselves inside a lifetime of Dominion theology. They may not know the term, but they’ve got the principles down cold. Go back some generations, our ancestors had it right. They saw themselves as stewards of the earth. Now it’s all about how God gave them dominion over everything, so they’ve got every right to do whatever they want with it.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky

“They were common law wed, no preachers involved. You can guess how that set with the more churchy types. Which was probably most of them. Still is. They pick and choose what suits them. ‘A man shall not lay with another man,’ they’re good about latching on to parts like that. But ‘Judge not, lest ye be judged,’ that goes in one ear and out the other.”
― Brian Hodge, I'll Bring You the Birds from Out of the Sky