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1 " The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us. "
― Liu Cixin , Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)
2 " I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life. "
3 " ...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room. "
― Patrick Rothfuss , The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)