The Birds Quotes

“His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“This gave him another opportunity to use one of those words that hung before him, shining and alluring. Far away in the distance there were more of them, dangerously sharp. Words that were not for him, but which he used all the same on the sly, and which had an exciting flavour and gave him a tingling feeling in the head. They were a little dangerous, all of them.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn't done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“Isn’t it odd that you only become clever when it’s too late?”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“— По-добре се захвани с нещо, докато чакаш промяната.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“Pero el ojo negro.
Con el párpado cubriéndolo.
Y con una gran piedra pesada encima.
De nada servían ni el párpado ni la piedra sobre un ojo así...,
una vez que lo ha mirado a uno.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“The lake was like a mirror, sky and earth lay there upside down.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds

“— Всичко зависи от мислите — каза Матис. — Те ми пречат. И ти си същата като тях, настойчива — осмели се да добави той.”
― Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds