Imagery Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“In that long ago somewhere very near this place he'd watched a falcon fall down the long blue wall of the mountain and break…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Once there was a boy. When the boy was 6 years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors -…

— Jace City of Bones

“Instead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. ‘I told you to make it obedient,’…

— Cassandra Clare

“You can’t make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup.”…

— S. M. Stirling

“As I turned to go, I nearly trod on the body of a young robin half hidden in the grass. Its wings were twisted…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising.…

— William Least Heat Moon

“I ran again, losing myself amongst my water-wolves. Some of the soldiers were taking to the sky, flapping upward, backtracking. So my wolves grew…

— Sarah J. Maas

“11- His days in Shadbagh were numbered, like Shuja’s. He knew this now. There was nothing left for him here. He had no home…

— Khaled Hosseini

“I know a rock in a highland's ravine, On which only eagles might ever be seen, But a black wooden cross o'er a precipice…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the vaguest idea…

— Douglas Woolf

“A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind, they coast…

— Anonymous