“I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”

“I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.”

“When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.”

“Her green eyes flutter all the way open, and she looks amused. It pricks his ego slightly. Afterkiss, shouldn’t she be fainting at his feet? But she’s grinning.”

“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”

“… the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all…”

“I asked none
why life ends in ways uncertain.”

“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.”

“Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?”

“I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.”