Gravity Quotes

“There was no denying that in our short time together Lena had struck hard and deep, carving out a space in my heart alongside my father—she was my first surrender to someone other than him. Like a fever reaching down every limb and muddling my mind, the ache of abandonment weakened my grip on the steering wheel and fuzzed the lanes of the highway. Loving my father was something innate—there when I was born, like the sun—but loving Lena took a leap of faith, and now that I’d lost her there were no bloodlines or primal bonds to harness the free fall.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“He had a way of coaxing me to greater and greater heights, promising a burst of exhilaration as long as I could bear the fear. It felt like the definition of true love. And I didn’t see how I could ever find it again.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“Her silk scarf was the same wine color as her unpainted lips—a dirty trick.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“I felt tears welling up behind my eyes and tried to blink them back.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“She walked up the street and waved before vanishing around a corner, a flash of blond mane the final image.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“Most rebellions and revolutions end up with the oppressed group coming to power and inflicting the same evils they endured on some new group that they are now oppressing, I argued. Violence, hoarding power and resources, that’s the basic human M.O.”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity

“It’s a nice fantasy life, she said when I was done. Well, I’m living it, so it’s more than a fantasy. What about love? She took off her bandanna, loosing her blond waves. Don’t you have someone you love? Why would I go do something like that?”
― Norman Ollestad, Gravity