crow

“That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take, there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“The owl,” he was saying, “is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?”
― M.J. Rose, Seduction

“My dragons!' she insisted.
'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her. But the dragons have taken her in.'
...'If a flock of crows is a murder, what should we call a group of dragons?' ... 'A catastrophe of dragons.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate