Above Us Only Sky Quotes

“Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“You are with the birds. Soaring. Flying. Don't worry about what used to be. If you lose something, you let it go.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“Sometimes life is like this Ferris wheel. Even when everything seems wrong, the sky is black, it's starting to rain, and some lady throws up on you, the wheel will keep right on turning to spite you." (the Old Man)”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“You’d think that in forty-eight years, a man would stop grieving his family, but life doesn’t work that way. Life speeds by until forty-eight years seems like one bar in one song, like one scene in one act in one opera. Like one stroke of paint on the Mona Lisa.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“I felt guilty because I was upset by the loss of one friend when the Old Man had lost nearly everyone he loved. Loss, I soon learned from him, is not measured in numbers. It's not comparative. It's in here. I'm touching my chest now.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“I was feeling then as I'm feeling now that we're each as vulnerable as that baby finch, little more than the gnash of beak and crunch of bone, in desperate need for someone to watch over us.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“We were as close as two people could be, or so I thought, but Wheaton had secrets--his own treasures. Perhaps if I'd paid closer attention, I wouldn't have lost him.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky

“It's sad how things devolve, how if you hear just the early part of Freddie and Veronica's story, this romantic romp between a blue-eyed guitarist and knobby-knuckled songstress, you imagine they'll go on forever.”
― Michele Young-Stone, Above Us Only Sky