White Knuckles Quotes

“I pretended very hard to be completely nonchalant. No use dressing for success if you’re going to cringe like a whipped dog for two hours. I used to tell myself that since I was going to die, I should attempt to die with some style. Smile a world-weary smile of annoyance when the engines exploded. Raise one eyebrow when the wing cracked off. I tried to look bored. It’s hard to look bored when you are jerking in your seat at every bump as if you have been slipped twenty volts. So I tried to look bored, but energetic.

…. I’d pat back a little yawn, stroll to the bathroom – and make deals with God. In the toilets of major airlines I have fervently renounced every sin in my life. Lord, just let me get down alive. Kill me any other way but this.”
― Layne Ridley, White Knuckles: Getting Over the Fear of Flying