Silverwing Quotes

“Across the valley a band of white light spread from the tree line. He was surprised how long this was all taking. Half the sky was already pale gray, and still no sun? What was it doing?

He blinked, turned away, and found himself staring straight at a wall of dense feathers. He looked up into the huge hooded eyes of an owl, perched at the end of his branch. Without a sound Shade pressed himself deep against the bark, but he knew he'd been spotted. They were so quiet, an owl's wings. They could sneak up on you. The owl's eyes held on him, and then the massive horned head swiveled eerily to the bright horizon, checking for the sun. Shade let his echo vision creep across the owl, taking a good long look: the thick feathers cloaking ferocious strength, the wickedly hooked beak that could rip through flesh in a second. And he knew it didn't even need its eyes to see him. Like him, all owls had echo vision too.”
― Kenneth Oppel, Silverwing

“No bat could kill an owl. They were giants, five times as big, maybe more. He should have been more afraid. He was smaller, but he could go places it couldn't, between tight gaps in branches; he could fold himself into a crevice in a tree's trunk; he could make himself almost invisible against bark.”
― Kenneth Oppel, Silverwing