“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.”
“God must have loved the birds, or he would not have given them wings that he gave to his angels.”
“Without love we all like birds with broken wings.”
“As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them.”
“I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.”
“A bat isn’t a bird isn’t a middle finger.”