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The Birds QUOTES

The Birds QUOTES

1 " You had to endure something yourself before it touched you. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The Birds

2 " Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The Birds

3 " You have to endure something yourself before it touched you. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The Birds

4 " Then he saw them. The gulls. Out there, riding the seas.
What he had thought at first to be the white caps of the waves were gulls. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands... They rose and fell in the trough of the seas, heads to the wind, like a mighty fleet at anchor, waiting on the tide. To eastward, and to the west, the gulls were there. They stretched as far as his eye could reach, in close formation, line upon line. Had the sea been still they would have covered the bay like a white cloud, head to head, body packed to body. Only the east wind, whipping the sea to breakers, hid them from the shore. "

― Daphne du Maurier , The Birds