Taking Flight Quotes

“you’d swear someone was taking pieces out of the puzzle and putting them back in the box. “Then one day you know. What’s missing isn’t obvious; you can’t name the thing. Just that it’s always stood next to other pieces and now it’s not. All you can see is the empty outline. “So you rifle through the box to see if you can find it. You try to keep the shape of the piece in your mind, and you check the other pieces around where it should fit for anything else that might help make it stand out. “Sometimes you find it, sometimes you don’t. But no matter what, when you come back the next day, there are more holes.”
― Adrian R. Magnuson, Taking Flight

“What is it they say about telling lies? You have to remember every detail, and sooner or later you get caught.”
― Adrian R. Magnuson, Taking Flight

“Imagine the biggest room you can think of. Maybe your school gym. On the floor is a million-piece puzzle. The picture of your life so far. It’s filled with all the people you’ve ever met, and all the places and things you’ve ever seen. It’s about half filled in, many small groupings, just a few pieces each, and big sections where lots fit together, but even those have holes here and there. “Every day you come back in to check. Maybe you add a piece or two. But you don’t seem to make much progress at completing the picture. At first you don’t notice anything missing, but after a while”
― Adrian R. Magnuson, Taking Flight