The Flight Girls Quotes

“This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used. —Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“In my day, we learned the subtle art of making men think they did it all by themselves. We just fixed our hair and put on our faces and a nice dress and poured the drinks. It's your day now, Audrey Fitzgerald. Don't hide what you can do, not for anyone.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“There was no controlling our destiny. There was only what we did in the moment.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.
—Eleanor Roosevelt”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“again.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“always considered it a limiting life. A life of dependency and neediness. I didn’t want to need anyone but myself. I didn’t want to count on anyone but me. As I looked up at the man before me, however, I knew needing him and depending on him would never limit me—it would only set me free. With James I would fly with wings constructed of trust and dreams for the future, on a breeze of laughter and shared declarations of love. Love that I believed in. Love that I returned.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“onward. I was not alone in this world, there were people who understood me, or who were at least happy to accept me as I was. And I was okay. Despite all that had happened, the loved ones I’d lost, the heartbreak in its many forms, I would be fine. My wings, though bruised and missing a few feathers, were not broken. I would fly again.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“There was no controlling our destiny. There was only what we did in the moment. All we could ever hope for was the best outcome. But it wasn’t guaranteed.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“What choice do we have but to be okay?”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“But it was time to let go of the ghosts of my recent past and find a new life for myself.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“I hope you are grieving, my dear. Not because I wish you pain, but because it is through pain that you will find healing.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“Not everyone needs a relationship to feel fulfilled.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“seen it on their television”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“Men, always underestimating us ladies.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“hope you are grieving, my dear. Not because I wish you pain, but because it is through pain that you will find healing.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“I knew it was hard for others to understand, my abject feeling of loss over James's silence. As far as most were concerned, I'd barely known him.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“I don't understand, that's all. We were supposed to be friends.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls

“How some of us stay the path, others remain tormented, letting the pain devour them, and still others find a new route—different from the original—but somehow just as satisfying.”
― Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls