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1 " Your baby is smarter than you think. "
― Josh Malerman , Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
2 " How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them? "
3 " It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. "
4 " There's no need to live like this, miss. Consider these children. Would you rob them the chance to view a brisk, beautiful day like this? "
5 " Creatures, Malorie thinks. What a cheap word. "
6 " Some people choose to wait for news and others make their own. "
7 " The fear she experiences sits firmly upon the center of her soul. "
8 " Bunu kendimize yapan biziz. BUNU KENDİMİZE YAPAN BİZİZ. Diğer bir deyişle (ki bu lafımı sakın unutma!): İNSANOĞLU ASLINDA KORKTUĞU YARATIĞIN TA KENDİSİDİR. "
9 " In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for? "
10 " You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead. "
11 " We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own. "
12 " You are saving their lives for a life not living. "
13 " Is he friendly?” Tom says quietly. “I’ve discovered,” Jules says, “that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him. "
14 " Man is the creature he fears. "
15 " dedication Sometimes I wish I were an architect, so that I could dedicate a building to a person; a superstructure that broke the clouds and continued up into the abyss. And if Bird Box were made of bricks instead of letters, I’d host a ceremony, invite every shadowy memory I have, and cut the ribbon with an axe, letting everyone see for the first time that building’s name. It’d be called the Debbie. Mom, Bird Box is for you. "
16 " This,’ Malorie says, placing a bloodied hand on the Girl’s head, ‘this is Olympia.’ The Girl looks at Malorie quickly. She blushes. She smiles. She likes it. ‘And this,’ Malorie says, pressing the Boy to her body, ‘is Tom.’ He grins, shy and happy. "
17 " Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind. "
18 " Robin was a great kid. Smarter than her father at eight years old. She liked the oddest things. Like the instructions for a toy more than the toy itself. The credits of a movie instead of the movie. The way something was written. An expression on my face. Once she told me I looked like the sun to her, because of my hair. I asked her if I shined like the sun, and she told me, ‘No, Daddy, you shine more like the moon, when it’s dark outside. "
19 " A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous. "
20 " Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress. "