Sky Daddy Quotes

“As I belonged nowhere on the conventional spectrum of sexual orientation, I allowed people to assume I was heterosexual, and I suppose I was, as all planes are male in spirit, just as all boats are female, and helicopters possess the souls of mischievous children.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Normally, I had no patience for people who griped about air travel. They failed to appreciate the privilege of being alive in the era of flight. How many humans, throughout history, would have paid a lifetime's salary for the chance to sail through the sky like a god?”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Total freedom is overrated, especially when you get to a certain age. If you aren't tied down to anything. you're a loser, you're fucked. You drift out to sea.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Dancing and swimming - those are two things I'll never pass up. I figure when I'm old, I'll look back on my life and be glad that I enjoyed my body while I could.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“One time, in my early twenties, I’d perused message forums discussing objectum sexuality, but concluded I was nothing like the woman who married the Eiffel Tower, or another who was in love with a trombone. Planes were not static objects, but sentient beings with rich inner lives.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“To be honest, I wasn't cut out to run a company. I'd rather collect a paycheck and let someone else deal with the headaches.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“What man could propel himself to a speed of 150 knots before lifting us to an altitude of 37,000 feet? What man could carry me across continents and seas, all while keeping me warm and oxygenated inside his aluminum torso? No man I’d ever chanced to meet!”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Perhaps this was what it meant to care for people: to distort reality in a way that flattered them.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I accepted that this was the consequence of getting close to someone and calling her my best friend: she would want to do things with me.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Neither am I,” Karina said. “But I do love to dance. Dancing and swimming—those are two things I’ll never pass up. I figure when I’m old, I’ll look back on my life and be glad that I enjoyed my body while I could.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Only such a cosmic force could bring about my dream of marriage to a plane—what others vulgarly refer to as a “plane crash.” I believed this was my destiny: for a plane to recognize me as his soulmate mid-flight and, overcome with passion, relinquish his grip on the sky, hurtling us to earth in a carnage that would meld our souls for eternity. I”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I was happy to be paid twenty dollars an hour to flatter a machine that would soon replace me.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Into the clutch I tucked my ID, my debit card, the tube of lipstick from my mini-makeover at Sephora, and of course my chunk of 737, which I never left home without.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“Planes are kind of beautiful, aren't they?" he said. This comment piqued my interest, but from the neutral expression on Dave's face, I knew he wasn't like me. He possessed only the typical masculine admiration of large vessels and feats of engineering.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy

“I'd met Claudette at Christmas and felt intimidated by the blank slate of her consciousness, and her proximity to the realm of nonexistence from which she had so recently emerged.”
― Kate Folk, Sky Daddy