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“I stared at them for a good long time, wondering if they didn’t know how to use their wings, of if they just didn’t…

— Michael Patrick MacDonald

“We were just putting words to our thoughts to see if they had wings.”

— Johanna Hedman

“I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the…

— Connie May Fowler

“At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other…

— Holly Cupala

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

“Don't you see, we are not in the same position. You were given wings to fly above the clouds, but I'm a woman, mine…

— Boris Pasternak

“bored, the strikes almost lazy. The blades made an echoing clang that reverberated up her spine, sending tiny vibrations down the arches of her…

— Francesca Vance

“He damaged her wings and demanded her to fly.”

— Noor Shirazie

“She was back on the ground, looking down at the bugs rather than up at the sky.”

— Ann Brashares

“Mother, once I learned what wings were, opening was easy.”

— Jacob Oet

“Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury