The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club Quotes

“To claim poverty when one was rich was very different than to be actually poor.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“I’ve decided that a woman should always aim to be competent rather than decorative.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“A strong woman could not be bitter simply because life was not a fairy tale.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“It is wonderful, just for a moment, to act like a child, but it isn’t a very practical solution to one’s problems.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“They couldn’t stand each other at the end, but they loved each other so much.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“Truly petrifying at first, of course, but once you let go, something shifts inside.” She flexed her fingers, which were stiff from her initial wild clutching. “It feels like freedom.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“Brief grief: always there was the moment of turning away, of giving up on straining to hear another engine coming home behind the hill. A sandwich or a hot pie chewed in silence and a cup of strong tea burning the throat. Then a quick wash and maybe a sleep. Because in the Flying Corps, the ritual was clear. To honor the men who did not come home in the evening, the dawn flight would go out uninterrupted.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“Two million disabled and over forty thousand amputees. Sometimes it seems as if the dead are more convenient than the wounded.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“To live for today, one must be reasonably financially assured of tomorrow,”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“was thin in the deliberate way of some women who are used to being beauties and who seek to extend the fading glow through active discipline.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

“The war seemed to have shattered those it had not killed.”
― Helen Simonson, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club