The Last Flight Quotes

“Identity is a strange thing. Are we who we say we are, or do we become the person others see? Do they define us by what we choose to show them, or what they see despite our best attempts to conceal it?”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“I’m not very good at forgiveness.” Liz nodded. “Not many people are. But what I’ve learned in life is that in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first. Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it’s also incredibly liberating.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“If we don't tell our own stories, we'll never take control of the narrative.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“it’s a system that tells women we are unreliable, and then expendable. That our truths don’t matter when set side by side with a man’s.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Eva could walk away with no regrets, knowing for certain the past held nothing of value for her. That sometimes, the death of a dream can finally set you free.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“The world was filled with people who carried secrets. No one was who they seemed to be.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“You know, life is long. Lots of things can go wrong and still end up all right.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“In a world crowded with noise and selfishness, you are a brilliant flash of kindness.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“You might be shoulder to shoulder with someone living their last moments as themselves and never know it.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“If we don’t tell our own stories, we’ll never take control of the narrative.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“That was the funny thing about regret. It lived inside of you, shrinking down until you could almost believe it had vanished, only to have it spring up, fully formed, called forward by people who meant you no harm.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Are we who we say we are, or do we become the person others see?”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Dedicated to all the women who have come forward with their stories. Whether it be in front of a congressional panel on live television or alone in a windowless human resources office—we hear you. We believe you.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“she realized she’d spent her whole life wishing for something she never would have had.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“That sometimes, the death of a dream can finally set you free.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“People disappear every day. The man standing in line at Starbucks, buying his last cup of coffee before he gets in his car and drives into a new life, leaving behind family who will always wonder what happened. Or the woman sitting in the lat row of a Greyhound bus, staring out the window as the wind blows strands of hair across her face, wiping away a history to heavy to carry. You might be shoulder to shoulder with someone living their last moments as themselves and never know it.”
― Julie Clark , The Last Flight

“in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first. Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it’s also incredibly liberating.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. —Mary Oliver, Wild Geese”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Humans are, by nature, social animals. And while I’m a dedicated introvert, I rely on my friends every day.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“think you need to figure out how to forgive yourself. For whatever it is that still chases after you.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“All choices had consequences. It was what you did with those consequences that mattered.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“If you pay attention, Claire, solutions always appear. But you have to be brave enough to see them,”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Hate can eat you up inside. I could devote hours a day to despising him. But it wouldn’t matter. He’s out there, somewhere, living his life, and if he thinks about us at all, it’s probably only in passing. I decided a long time ago to forgive him, which is a lot easier than hating him.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“But what I’ve learned in life is that in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first. Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it’s also incredibly liberating.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Long ago, when she was a girl in the group home, Eva discovered that big feelings made most people uncomfortable, and she learned how to use anger or sadness to turn up the pressure, to maneuver people into a position where their only desire was to make the emotion go away. To stop the tears. To fix the fear. To placate the anger.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“[Eva James] "I'm not very good at forgiveness."
Liz nodded. "Not many people are. But what I've learned in life is that in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first, Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it's also incredibly liberating.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“She gave him a grateful smile and said, “Thanks, Dex.” As long as he believed he was handling her, he wouldn’t notice how she was handling him.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“Leaving home was the hardest thing I ever did, but I needed to see who I might be, apart from a dutiful daughter and devoted sister. My high school years had been rough, and I was eager to reinvent myself as someone new, to build the life for myself I’d always dreamed of. I feel the weight now, the cost of wandering too far away from home. Of wanting too much.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight

“People could still see her, but the essence of who she was got trapped beneath their expectations, and she worried about what would happen when the truth seeped out.”
― Julie Clark, The Last Flight