Frank and Red Quotes

“You don’t need a parachute to skydive once.’ That’s what he was thinking about: that falling in love with someone, and allowing yourself to do so, was like falling without a parachute. And that’s okay when it’s the love of your life, because you only intend to skydive once.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“As is a tale, so is a life. Not in how long it is, but how good it is.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“She did that thing adults do when they don’t really listen to the important bit, and get stuck on the bit about you doing something wrong.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“let’s look at your highlights, let’s look at your best bits? Here’s the thing, Frankie . . . You were my best bits. You and our boy.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“Life is a big hole, unless you fill it with things, people and experiences and stuff. And that’s what you need to do.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“Y’know, the one thing I hate most about all this cancer business,’ he said, gesturing at nothing, ‘is when people talk about fighting it. They talk about a battle against cancer. As though it’s possible to stop the unstoppable, with nothing more than courage or wishful thinking, or being positive or whatever. What a load of shite.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“The thing about terminal illness is that it is a plane crash in slow motion. It begins with warning lights in the cockpit: a cough, tiredness, a lack of appetite, sometimes spidery handwriting across a quiz sheet. And then you get a diagnosis and lose control. And then everybody prays and cries, and waits to crash into a mountain.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“you see something that’s injured, and you want to fix it. But sometimes you can’t. Fix things, I mean.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank and Red

“He had once heard a saying that went something like: ‘You don’t need a parachute to skydive once.’ That’s what he was thinking about: that falling in love with someone”
― Matt Coyne, Frank & Red

“But what was that saying? ‘You want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans.’)”
― Matt Coyne, Frank & Red

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything,’ she replied.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank & Red

“You don’t need a parachute to skydive once.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank & Red

“Her eyes were lively and framed by the beginning of lines at the edges. Lines that people call crow’s feet, but are often just the details that come to make a person look content.”
― Matt Coyne, Frank & Red