On Little Wings Quotes

“Sometimes the memories seemed too much and I couldn't understand how I'd stayed so calm when these things actually happened, but lost my breath in the shadowy remembrances.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“Our wings may be small, but then again, so are we.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility of trying to mold love into an expected shape. The foolishness of whining when it didn't fit.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“I wanted to ask them how they had tamed love so that it did not break them, trample them, defeat them. I doubted they would have understood the question. Love seemed docile and easy in their hands.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“I might be old and ugly now, but you started that way, Jack.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“It’s like David in the Bible when his child got sick. He ripped his clothes and shaved his head and wouldn’t eat and prayed all day and begged and cried and everyone was scared to tell him that the boy was dead. But when he found out he washed his face and ate breakfast. When there’s still a chance to salvage something you torture yourself. When it’s gone, you wash your face. You wake up. You start picking up the pieces, no matter how tiny and scattered they are. And then suddenly, the life that you had that was whole is suddenly a mosaic made of the old pieces. And something entirely new. I don’t know how. I just know it happens.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“There are reasons classics are classics. They resonate. They hit us in the gut. Ode to Joy is my favorite song. Not very original, but it’s great for a reason.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“Not every ocean is wet. The first time I stared at a wheat field and saw the golden stalks roll like a tide pushed by the wind, I knew I'd learned a secret; there is ocean in Nebraska.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“I know he sounds gruff sometimes, but he is just trying to decipher the world."

I frown. "Shouldn't that be easy for someone as smart as he is?"

"On the contrary, I think that makes it much worse," she said without further explanation.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings