I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found." "That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.
It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.
It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's ey...
I head a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.
James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.
He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.
