War Quote by Kathryn Lasky

“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything of fortune,…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“Chamomile are feathers from the wings of seraphim angels, thrown as an offering to the earth for each bird hunted in the sky.”

— Corina Abdulahm Negura

“In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air, our houses…

— David Bowles

“What need for feathers now? What need to confirm their loss? While the womb-red sky swelled with the promise of tomorrow, and he rode…

— Georgina Anne Taylor

“A glimpse of my feathers. Show too much and they’ll tear you apart Bird of Paradise Born in the trenches Facing the mouth of…

— Emily Bird

“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

“I burn the clouds, Knowing that remembrance has thorny flasks. I plough the sky by sea, Knowing that tears are bluer than my joy.…

— Basim Furat

“Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry…

— Hamlin Garland

“I stopped myself from reaching up to touch the raven feather I’d tied into my hair before leaving my cell. The thing had become…

— Lesley Livingston

“In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished. But even as it fell it swung its whip,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the…

— Joy Williams