Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are birds, and then there are other birds. Maybe they don’t sing. Maybe they don’t fly. Maybe they don’t fit in. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be an other bird rather than just the same old thing.”
“If the people around you don’t love or accept you just as you are, find new people. They’re out there.”
“Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them. —ROSCOE AVANGER, Sweet Mallow”
“We all want to think we’re worth the trouble.”
“Children, don't hold on to old love so hard you forget to live. Old love isn't the only love you'll ever have. And I can tell you from this side that it never really goes away, anyway. So let go. Whatever you're holding on to, let go.”
“Not everything has to be real to be true.”
“Stories aren't fiction. Stories are fabric. They're the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them.”
“She says it's about the love you give, not the love you get.”
“It had taken him all his life to understand this, but even unlikable things have worth. It was how, after all, he'd learned to life with himself.”
“So Zoey understood that mothering was in the details you never saw. And the lack of it was the things you always noticed.”
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Book Keywords:
mothers, old-wise, let-go, old-love
