The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but...

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.

We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children.” “But they make no sense!”...

She wasn’t a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her...

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

Well, I don’t care,” said Bird out loud, said Bird, who cared so much that she couldn’t bear to touch the hurt. “I don’t care. I ran away from Summer, and I will make my...

Have I heard all the stories I need to hear?” she asked, stupidly. But he answered as if it were a good question.”No, you haven’t. But you don’t have time to hear any more from...