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Quotes About Wings

Mano širdžiai užtenka tavo kr?tin?s, tavo laisvei užtenka mano sparn?.
~ Neruda Pablo
The subprime butterfly had flapped its wings and triggered a global hurricane.
~ Niall Ferguson
Rand will underestimate him. He does not recognize the monster he himself created." "I am not certain I like you referring to my brother as a monster." There was a trace of humor in Mikhail's voice. "You should hear what I call you behind your back," Greogri said, even as his arms spread to accommodate the wings forming. Mikhail's laughter echoed as the bird soared into the night sky.
~ Christine Feehan
She was a tiny cocoon suspended in the center of silvery wings, a potential surrounded by actuality. A seed unplanted and drifting on the wind.
~ Christopher Paolini
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art: For there thy habitation is the heart— The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned— To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.
~ Upton Sinclair
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
~ Victor Hugo
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
one felt the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings.
~ Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
~ Victor Hugo
His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
~ Victor Hugo
I love you. I'm proud of you. I've never seen anyone so brave. Why was I so mean for so long? You gave me wings, Mom. Did you know that? I feel you here. Will I always?
~ Kristin Hannah
What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?
~ L.P. Hartley
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
~ Laini Taylor
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.
~ Laini Taylor
they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
~ Laini Taylor
In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.
~ Laini Taylor
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.
~ Laini Taylor
Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
~ Laini Taylor
Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou
~ Laini Taylor
Weep slept. Dreamers dreamed. A grand moon drifted, and, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below.
~ Laini Taylor
wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
~ Laini Taylor
it's like . . . finding a book inside another book. A small treasure of a book hidden inside a big common one—like . . . spells printed on dragonfly wings, discovered tucked inside a cookery book, right between the recipes for cabbages and corn. That's what a kiss is like, he thought, no matter how brief: It's a tiny, magical story, and a miraculous interruption of the mundane.
~ Laini Taylor
His books were spilled onto the floor, their pages creased beneath them like the broken wings of birds
~ Laini Taylor
A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.
~ Cassandra Clare