Quotes from Bird Box

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“You can smell it, too. Death. Dying. Decay. The sky is falling, the sky is dying, the sky is dead.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Is he friendly?” Tom says quietly. “I’ve discovered,” Jules says, “that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“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.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“We left because some people choose to wait for news and others make their own.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“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.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Only a box of birds, Malorie thinks. Yet, it does feel like progress.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“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.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Your baby is smarter than you think.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“A grisly story, but one whose notoriety Malorie attributes to the seemingly senseless way the Internet has of making random occurrences famous.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“it’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“believe that it’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Bunu kendimize yapan biziz. BUNU KENDİMİZE YAPAN BİZİZ. Diğer bir deyişle (ki bu lafımı sakın unutma!): İNSANOĞLU ASLINDA KORKTUĞU YARATIĞIN TA KENDİSİDİR.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Malorie watches them close their eyes, then she does the same. In her private darkness, her heart beats louder. “Good”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“The children have never seen the world outside their home. Not even through the windows. And Malorie hasn’t looked in more than four years. Four years.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Wires run from under the back door into the first-floor bedrooms, where amplifiers alert Malorie and the children to any sounds coming from outside the house. The three of them live this way. They do not go outside for long periods of time.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“it’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

“Непокътната врата й напомняше, че навън броди лудостта, независимо дали някой, за когото те е грижа, е излязъл да се срещне с нея, или не.”
― Josh Malerman, quote from Bird Box

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