Bird Box Quotes
"Whatever noise she made must have traveled through the microphones, then the amplifiers that sat beside their beds."
"A twenty-mile trip on the river will be hard on the children."
"This is unfair, she would say. This is cruel."
"Sometimes, for all the pressure upon them to listen, Malorie believes they can hear her think."
"Able to help navigate a boat that will be piloted blindly."
"What kind of life is she protecting them for?"
"You are saving their lives for a life not worth living."
"The world outside, the empty malls and restaurants, the thousands of unused vehicles, the forgotten products on idle store shelves, all of it presses in on the house."
"The river is an amphitheater, Malorie muses, paddling."
"Suddenly the bathroom door opens. Malorie reaches for a towel."
"The front-page headline is about the growing number of incidents."
"The world, the outdoors, is being shut down."
"People are seeing something that drives them to hurt others. To hurt themselves."
"She cries loudly. Through wet eyes, she reads the ad again."
"Malorie has never liked this word. It’s out of place, somehow."
"I’m going to take it first, the one thing I’ve got left that you can take from me."
"The sound of a gunshot explodes from the speakers."
"The claustrophobia is incredible, weighing in on her and her baby."
"Despite the horror everyone in the room just listened to, Olympia’s innocence breaks through the darkness."
"Training the children means she has scared them so completely that under no circumstances will they disobey her."
"As babies, she trained them to wake with their eyes closed."
"The Girl hated it. She said the ground was 'too bumpy' out there around the well."
"What would Tom say about that? He’d tell you that you were being the best mother on Earth."
"Are you a good mother? Does such a thing exist anymore?"
"How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can’t lift their heads to gaze upon them?"
"We can’t stop trying just because George died."
"They’re scared of us," Olympia suddenly says. "Our housemates. They’re scared of our bellies."
"It was probably the best glass of water I’ve ever had."
"In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?"
"There isn’t a thing in this house that doesn’t interest him."
"A tree branch is a toy. The wires behind the VCR are toys."
"Think, Tom would say. You’re doing it. You’re rowing. Just keep rowing."
"Even in this newer world, here on the river, Tom comes to her as something bright, something right, something good."
"Your body knows what to do. Your body knows what to do."
"What scares you more? The creatures or yourself, as the memories of a million sights and colors come flooding toward you?"
"But she knows part of it is because she’s discovered that the children are capable of surviving, if only for a moment, on their own."
"She wants to hear a knock at the door and to feel the relief of having them back again."
"You’re the captain of this ship. Whatever you say."
"He has to go," Cheryl says without hesitation.
"We’re not voting to send someone out who wants to go this time. We’re voting on forcing someone to do it. Do you want that on your conscience?"
"I think every house on this block is empty. From what Jules and I discovered. You have your pick of them."
"You’re going to come out any day now. There are so many things I want to tell you and so many that I don’t."
"You look like a princess. I look like the princess’s sister."
"We called the whole phone book. None yet. But who knows?"
"I don’t know. Obviously something’s got him rattled."
"It’s like pulling teeth to get him to talk. Even worse to get him upstairs."
"It might do you some good to be around the rest of us for a night."
"I found it fascinating, the lengths the man would go to."
"Two seventy-three Shillingham. My name is Tom."