“Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.”
“Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!”
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
“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 into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.”
“And maybe... you are a little fat bear cub with no wings, and no feathers.”