The Scarlet Ibis Quotes

"He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled like an old man's."

"Crawling backward made him look like a doodlebug, so I began to call him Doodle."

"One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all had believed he would die."

"But all of us must have something or someone to be proud of, and Doodle had become mine."

"It's a great big red bird!"

"He had failed and we both knew it, so we started back home, racing the storm."

"Brother, Brother, Don't leave me!"

"I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain."