Such a Rush Quotes

“Love isn’t something you have to deserve.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“It’s easier to remember your lies if they’re close to the truth,”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Most people hear an airplane in the sky and think, ‘There’s an airplane,’ and go back to what they were doing. A few folks look around for the airplane, try to figure out what kind of plane it is, and watch it from the time they spot it to the time it disappears on the horizon, maybe after that. Those kids are the ones who will be pilots." He pointed at me. "I knew that about you. I’ve just been waiting for you to show up.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“I had wanted something from him. Even expected a confrontation. To be ignored was a sentence without a period.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“On a sigh he brought up his hand and used one long finger to brush a dark curl away from my face. With the saddest look in his eyes, he said, "A girl needs to be held right now, and comforted, and told that everything is going to be okay. I'm sorry I can't do that for you. I don't have any of that left."

"I have a little," I said, "and I'll lend it to you.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“When I’m with you," he began again, "it’s like… I still don’t feel normal. But I can see normal at twelve o’clock on the horizon." He pointed past me, through the windshield of an imaginary airplane. "At least I know normal is still out there. I’ve spent the last three months not sure of that at all.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“But when I was a little girl, my mom always told me to be nice to everybody, no matter what they looked like or how they treated me, because I never knew who might be an angel God had sent to Earth in disguise.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Grayson looked at me again. This time his gaze traveled form my hair down, and he let me see that he was looking. What he meant by this was that he thought I was beautiful, it was not just my miraculous hair, and we shouldn’t be distracted from our true love by the pesky detail that he was blackmailing me into dating his brother.
Right.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“We wanted to enjoy the afterglow and we were trying our best to bond, but it was difficult with so many people between us, even though most of them were ghosts.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we’d be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That’s where people got into trouble.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“You are the prettiest pilot I ever saw.'
'Hey.' Grayson walked forward. 'Do you see me standing here in a tux? Get in line.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Sarcasm was a weapon for children.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“And" – his voice was soft now – "you’re a beautiful girl. If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he’ll want to go out with you. I know I would."
My skin prickled with goose bumps, a chill in the hot April evening. My brain knew Grayson didn’t have the crush on me that I’d imagined when he got mad at me at the airport that afternoon. He wouldn’t have asked me to date his brother if he’d been interested in me. But my body didn’t know this, or didn’t care.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Men always do that to women when they feel threatened. They tell everybody the woman must be giving out blow jobs because there’s no way she could be successful otherwise.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“You’re not a whore. You’re a chick who hasn’t exactly grown up with every advantage, and you’ve learned to use what you’ve got. You don’t do it on purpose. It’s second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you’re harmless.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“I guess’ will get you killed.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Finally he said, "I am sorry for it. His mama didn't teach him right."

My mama didn't teach me right either, I thought, and I don't act that way. I kept rocking.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“I remembered what Mr. Hall had told me when I first asked him for a lesson: the kids who watch planes are destined to be pilots.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“On a date, you shared your deep thoughts with each other, but not that deep. We were eating sandwiches, for God's sake.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“I squeezed the controls to brace myself so I wouldn’t shiver with the chill of wanting. Normal people got that feeling when they quit smoking cigarettes. I had gotten it then too.
Normal people did not get that feeling when faced with danger.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“He tilted his head to one side, considering me, his weathered face impossible to read. But his voice was kind as he said, "There are lots of mistakes you can make. Pilots make them, and pilots die. Obstacles will kill you. The weather will kill you. But, as I’m about to show you, the airplane is your friend. The plane wants to fly.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“An hour later, we were full of pizza and I love him a little more.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“It wasn't a pretty sunset. The colors were as expected: violet clouds, bright orange and pink underneath, against the pale blue sky. But the clouds were high cirrus, wispy, and crossed with the contrails of F-16s, a colorful glowing mess. I said, "It looks like God barfed a rainbow.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“If I were stepping down from the bus at the rich end of town instead of the trailer park, I wouldn’t have to watch every word I said to make sure it wasn’t slang for an orgasm.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“I was vaguely aware that we’d been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“It’s going to be a pretty day to fly.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush

“Then he pulled off his T-shirt. The cotton clung to the muscles of his chest and arms like it loved him and didn’t want to leave.”
― Jennifer Echols, Such a Rush