Carrion Birds Quotes

“Outside the window the thin moon stood upright in a deep sky, like the paring of a finger-nail for magic, and against the sky the weather vane of the carrion crow with arrow in mouth pointed it's arrow to the south”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Does that have to go in?” Lada asked.
“What do you mean?” Wistala said, brought back to the dictation.
“The battle. Betrayals. Incompetence, even cowardice. Boats falling, mud everywhere, blood running from balconies, carrion birds poking marrow from bones, dwarves hanging from bridges, burned corpses, but worst of all, no hero whose courage and skill is put to the ultimate test.”
“They asked for a history, they shall have my history. If someone else will have the battle take place on a spring-green field with pennants at the lance points and songs sung over the honored dead, let them write it thus. This history is a story of death begetting death, and should end with carrion birds, for they are the only ones who come out the better at the end.”
― E.E. Knight, Dragon Avenger

“We hoped for the best, for a wild life free on the wing; keep calm and carrion, friend.”
― Katie Fallon, Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

“The Tibetans & the Mayans knew the vulture
is both practical & holy.
In one creation myth, it is the Earth's mason,

lime plastering the front of its apron, as digestion turns the forsaken
into splashes of immaculate light.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems