No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.

“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some t…”

“Let them look. Let them stare and whisper until they've had their fill, I will …”

“No man should live longer than his teeth.”

“Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, s…”