The Theory of Flight Quotes

“My way of loving him was to let him go. Your way of loving him will be to keep him, but I have every faith that you will, and you need to have that faith too.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“Death, like a jealous lover, consumes completely. Death will not allow him to intervene.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“You took to the streets to free yourself of expectations and obligations. You took to the streets because you wanted to be left alone - or rather because you wanted the privacy that could only come from living publicly, from having people pretend not to see you.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“He made her laugh, which was the third betrayal.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“We cannot print what matters, we never print the truth, but we still have to sell the paper somehow. So in the end, all we have is sensationalism. and that is what your story had to be. I am really sorry…truly.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight

“His mother sashays towards them, arms outstretched, looking every bit like an actress on stage. A lipstick smile on her lips. But her eyes are sad—so very sad that Marcus cannot look into them for fear of seeing something reflected there that he has yet to acknowledge. Her eyes are the only indication that he play she is in is a tragedy. She throws her arms around him, and he, not knowing what else to do, kisses the only imperfection on his mother's otherwise perfect face, the bite mark from the day he left the Beauford Farm and Estate.”
― Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight