Captivity Quote by Robin McKinley

“He supposed it would be considered pastoral-there were trees clustered in a meadow, with two muscular black cows and two improbably fluffy sheep arranged…

— Julie Anne Long

“The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.”

— Craig Froman

“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

“If only I had feathered wings, that could bend and curve and reach, beyond imagined dreams, unhindered by the weight of earth.”

— Craig Froman

“The wind of the world was wild, and it mocked human expectations. But it wasn't the wind that carried you. It was the flex…

— Alex London

“I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”

— Gustav Flaubert

“She knew intellectually that he was beautiful, the way the iridescent wings of a carrion fly would be.”

— James S.A. Corey

“It was a sense of privilege and mute wonder, as though he’d witnessed one of those small, everyday miracles of spring. Like a licked-clean…

— Tessa Dare

“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

“And then it dropped lower, and her eyes caught it in all its pale majesty. It was a moth, no more, no less, but…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground.”

— Christopher Paolini

“Sheep used to have wings. One flew into the sky and all the others followed. They took their wings off while feeding in the…

— Richard Adams