Wings Quotes
1815 quotes by 1271 authors
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Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might…
— Erin Morgenstern
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...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,…
— Laini Taylor
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In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present…
— Peter Straub
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Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
— Tess Gerritsen
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Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers…
— C.S. Lewis
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Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew)…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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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…
— Laini Taylor
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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.
— Lew Wallace
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Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul…
— Elizabeth Scott
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...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…
— Laini Taylor
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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…
— Laini Taylor
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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,…
— Laini Taylor
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And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall?…
— Anne Rice
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Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in its feathered embrace.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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There is one—how would you put it—loophole.†“Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.
— Nalini Singh
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
— Geraldine Brooks
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You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing…
— Francesca Lia Block
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How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?
— Peter S. Beagle
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