Quotes About Nest

She sank down beside the nest and picked up a piece of broken eggshell. Oh,

Blue sat up, yawning, and looked over Cricket's shoulder. "Maybe it thinks it's time to hatch because it's not in the Nest anymore." "Oh my stars," Cricket said. "Is that a thing? A real thing? Can it really tell it's not in the Nest?

When we're free, we'll go find a scavenger nest

Three silver eyes in the sky, huge and perfectly round, with darkness all around them. It felt as if they were sinking into his chest, melting into his eyes. He wanted to scoop them into his talons and swallow them whole. He was in a carved stone nest lined with black fur, at the peak of a sharp promontory. Another egg sat quietly in the nest, nearly camouflaged against the fur and the shadows.

But you're still better company than the pigeons. All they want to talk about is nest design and who to poop on.

Did you actually--?' Logan glanced through the play-house window. The floor was covered in Harry Potter books, as if Flurp had been making a nest out of them. 'Eat books?! Flurp would NEVER! Flurp would STARVE first!' The griffin cub let out a tiny burp that smelled of crayons.

Those who can't afford a uniform may wear a blue armband / from which the meadow pipit filches a single strand / to bind its nest. The rest of us are bound / by honor alone.

The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

pointed out. But the dust disturbances could easily have been covered up as well. Only they weren't, which told Robie that the shooter didn't care if the sniper's nest was discovered. He picked up a long piece of shoe molding that had broken off, knelt down, and, using

I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. It almost seems like he prefers a nest of spies and assassins to the splendour of his own bed.

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Mamma eagles are fierce," the pastor had said. "They're so fierce that—ready or not—they'll push their babies from the nest to force them to fly.

My uncle's town, Milburn, is one of those places that seems to create its own limbo and then to nest down in it.

He had watched her, after all, mourn her husband's death and it had been for her in part the discovery that grief could attach itself with permanence - something Ishmael had already discovered. It attached itself and then it burrowed inside and made a nest and stayed. It ate whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it.

out of the nest. He estimated the clutch had been around fifty eggs

In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies, but they remain my steadfast companions. I'm grateful, though I long to fly, too. But as long as The Bad Man lurks, another girl may need me. As long as The Bad Man lurks, I will stay.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, How shall ye flee away and be at rest! The wild-dove hath her nest, the fox his cave, Mankind their country — Israel but the grave!

The place didn't look much like a family dwelling, really. It looked like a rich man's love nest, a secluded little getaway nestled back in the trees of the peninsula and safe from spying eyes. Or an ideal location for a novice sorcerer to come to try out his fledgling abilities, safe from interruptions. A good place for Victor Sells to set up shop and practice

I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self, that shapes the elaborate shell of the mollusc and the child in the womb, that teaches the birds to make their nest; and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind.

a magic egg swaddled in a nest, waiting for its mystery to hatch, and the night grew yet darker.

Primarily, shapeshifters of the animal variety remain true to animal kingdom rules in their sexual behaviors. I cant say Ive ever seen two male shack up, set up housekeeping, and make crème brûlée together in their nest of love.