Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88
“I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.”
Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)
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