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Quotes About Feathers

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.
~ Shannon Hale
Razo] knocked, peered inside, then jumped and shut the door, quiet as brushing two feathers together. He smiled at his own stealth, then swaggered right into a chair, banging it against the wall. You oaf . He cut short his swagger and began to move with exaggerated sneakiness.
~ Shannon Hale
He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection. Psalm 91:4, NLT
~ Sharon Jaynes
The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.
~ Michael Drayton
They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
~ Owen Hart
maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us-- as soft as feathers-- that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica, to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow-- that is nothing but light--scalding, aortal light-- in which we are washed and washed out of our bones.
~ Mary Oliver
maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us — as soft as feathers — that we are instantly weary of looking
~ Mary Oliver
My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Hope it an unbearably precious thing, worth its weight in feathers. If that's too much to think about, best to tuck it in a pocket anyway, and make it a habit.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Their tail feathers ticked like weeds and one of them crowed nonstop, as if impatient. But impatience implies consciousness of time and a chicken is existential. I know that much about birds.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.
~ Kim Kardashian
What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.
~ Mike Thompson
There is little incentive even for the media to encourage whistle-blowing or ruffling powerful feathers. They lose advertising, are harassed by government and cut off from the all-important 'A' lists of the rich and the powerful.
~ Sucheta Dalal
It was Christmas Eve. Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers and made all of the Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful. Tall fir trees stood up to their knees in snow and their outstretched hands were heaped with it. Those that were bare of leaves wore soft white fur on their scrawny, reaching arms and all the stumps and low bushes had been turned into fat white cupcakes.
~ Betty MacDonald
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.
~ Michelle Paver
Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, Fun! Try this, but with exploding feathers! and Gotta love him -- deeply sick.
~ Gregory Maguire
Mental note: Being the damsel in distress truly sucked angel feathers; avoid at all costs.
~ Hannah Howell
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
~ Shirley Jackson
You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?
~ Simon R. Green
Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.
~ Bernard Cornwell
A group of parrots is called a pandemonium.
~ Susan Mallery