Bird Box

She wants to plead with anyone who might listen

“Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.”

Think about that, Malorie. It all kind of happened in a row, each step allowed the next step to happen. All because we weren’t stagnant. We took risks. Now you’ve got to do the same.

You are saving their lives for a life not worth living.

MAN IS THE CREATURE HE FEARS

This is what a grave smells like. This is death.

Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.”

One day, the pain your mother and the pain every mother speaks of will come to you in the same form: childbirth. Only a woman can experience it and because of this all women are bonded.

Malorie thinks. How horrible. After all this struggling, all this survival. To die because of an accident.

placid afternoons, tempestuous evenings,