Skybound Quotes

“For me, he can walk on water, dance in the clouds. I know he can’t, really, but what he can and can’t do pales into nothing when I look at him.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“I've only ever really been afraid of the fear, but right now, I fear nothing.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“I’ve never woken to another’s body in the same bed, not since I was a child. There is something about it that makes waking up alone seem unnatural. Man is not meant to be alone, yet men like us (or maybe men like me) appear to be lonelier than others.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“Unplayed sound is like unspoken words.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it’s hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch him, feel his breath brush my skin.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“If the world ends tomorrow, how will I go? Without ever having risked anything, or having done the one thing I can't stop thinking about?”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“We race towards something so amazing and precious it strikes me dumb with its immenseness. I lose every sense of myself, every thought; there’s just emotion and utter fulfillment.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“Nobody else exists to me when he lands. Everything stops existing when he takes off, as if he takes it all with him when he goes up there, to places I'll never see again. That vast open non-place of emptiness that only becomes significant when his comrades are there, too, and of course the enemy fighters guarding the bombers bound for Berlin.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“There was one entertainer—they called him the Nightingale of Paris—who had the most amazing voice.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound

“He’s a legend. Every green boy desires to be him. I don’t. My desires are more complicated.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Skybound