The Conference of the Birds Quotes

“One never knows when the end is coming, or if we may all be assembled together as a whole and complete family again. And so I want you to know that I regret every day that my full attention has been called away from you, and if these talks, and the rebuilding of our loops at home, have caused me to shirk my responsibility to you, I am sorry. In the end I am your mistress and your servant. You mean more to me than all the birds in the sky and the heavens above them. If you love me, I hope I have deserved it.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“There’s an art to fleeing casually. It’s not easy, running from something that might kill you while not attracting stares.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“It was the second time in three days that I'd taken up space normally reserved for a dead body. It seemed like the universe was trying to tell me something and not in a terribly subtle way.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“You mean more to me than all the birds in the sky and the heavens above them. If you love me, I hope I have deserved it.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“My brain, as ever, was a hope-making machine.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“I think dreams contain lots of meaning. But that meaning doesn’t have to be literally true.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“People say things when they’re upset. It doesn’t mean they don’t care if you live or die.”
“We’re family. Don’t you know that?”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“She nodded, a small assent, and I felt a shared recognition flicker between us: of a darkness mutually understood, and of a thin, golden thread of wonder and hope that ran through the fabric of this new world. There is more, it said. There is more to the universe than you ever imagined.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“Because war is a virus.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“I felt like an old cartoon character following the wafting scent of a pie cooling in a window.”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds

“We were now in the frustrating position of having a clear goal”
― Ransom Riggs, The Conference of the Birds