Coming Up for Air Quotes

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air

“I believe it's a miracle in life when you find people who care about and desire the same things you do, and creativity does that -- brings those people together in one place.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air

“The choices we make when we’re broken, are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air

“I don’t know what to say. It hurts. It’s a terrible relief, and I feel guilty about that. It’s sad and it’s sudden and it feels as if the earth has shifted beneath my feet, but I can’t see what that changes. Maybe it doesn’t change anything, but maybe it changes everything. I have no idea. I feel foggy and disconnected, but I’m okay.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air: A Novel

“And that is the choice everyone has. They can wish for what they want in their life or they can face the truth. But sometimes you cant have both.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air

“But all that planning and outlining can really get a man knotted up thinking things aren’t going his way. It might be that things aren’t going as planed but they are going as well as they can.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Coming Up for Air