Falling Quotes

“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Accept the given circumstances and deal with what you can control. Don’t waste time on what you can’t.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Everyone dies. No one escapes it. It’s the only fair thing in the world. Sometimes you’re young, sometimes you’re old, sometimes you deserve it, sometimes you don’t.”
― T.J. Newman , Falling

“It was the same impulse that stopped them from saying the things they wanted to say, doing the things they wanted to do, being who they wanted to be. They’d do it tomorrow. Next time. Later. And now, too late, they realized that tomorrow had never been a guarantee.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“After all, a flight is just a random sample of the general population, a classic bell curve. A few assholes and a few exemplars, but primarily, a whole bunch of sheep.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.’ ”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“The truth that people are only as good as the world lets them be. You’re not inherently good and I’m not inherently bad. We’re just working through the cards life dealt us. So putting you in this position, dealing you these cards—what does a good guy do now? It’s not about the crash, Bill. It’s about the choice. It’s about good people seeing they’re no different from bad people.” He looked from Bill to Carrie. “You’ve just always had the luxury of choosing to be good.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“All I want is to see what a good man—a good American man—does when he’s in a no-win situation. What does a man like you do when he has to choose. A plane full of strangers? Or your family? See, Bill, it really is about the choice. You. Choosing who will survive. That is what I want.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“You don’t think everyone actually lives, do you? Most people just exist and roam around. It’s a choice, to actually live.’ ”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Compartmentalization was the only way to remain in control during a crisis. Tackle the issue with logic and reason—deal with how you feel about it later. It’s a mindset drilled into every pilot from day one.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Ma’am, you’re taking a risk either way. But only one option ends with people dying.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Death always feels personal, Bill. It feels damn fucking personal. But you know what the crazy thing about death is? It’s not personal. Everyone dies. No one escapes it. It’s the only fair thing in the world. Sometimes you’re young, sometimes you’re old, sometimes you deserve it, sometimes you don’t. But what the fuck is that, anyway? Death doesn’t just happen to ‘bad’ people, death doesn’t give a shit.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“People didn’t dress like that anymore. It harkened back to a time when air travel was a rare privilege, a major event. Purposefully unchanged, the uniform kept a certain antiquated mystique alive. It elicited respect. Trust. It proclaimed a sense of duty.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“People didn’t dress like that anymore. It harkened back to a time when air travel was a rare privilege, a major event.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Compartmentalization was the only way to remain in control during a crisis. Tackle the issue with logic and reason—deal with how you feel about it later.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“She found relief in knowing that the earth would keep turning and that, ultimately, it didn’t care.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“There was everything before that moment, and then everything after. The paradigm shift was supernatural.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Her father had circled Ecclesiastes 9:3—“One fate comes to all alike, and this is as wrong as anything that happens in this world”—and beside it, he’d written one word. Underlined. In all capital letters. YES.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Anyway, she didn’t say a word, she just handed me this shiny gold box with this royal-blue bow. I knew what it was, we all did. I remember my fingers sliding that bow off so careful-like, and when I opened that box—there it was. My very own bottle of Shalimar. I smelled it. It smelled like my mama. And her mama. It smelled like what I was and who I would become.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“specifics.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“See, Bill, it really is about the choice. You. Choosing who will survive. That is what I want.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Sweat”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Tomorrow the tide would go out and come in just the same as it did the day before and would do the day after. She found relief in knowing that the earth would keep turning and that, ultimately, it didn’t care.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Martyrdom is a coward’s death.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“It’s about the choice. It’s about good people seeing they’re no different from bad people.” He looked from Bill to Carrie. “You’ve just always had the luxury of choosing to be good.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“But you know what the crazy thing about death is? It’s not personal. Everyone dies. No one escapes it. It’s the only fair thing in the world. Sometimes you’re young, sometimes you’re old, sometimes you deserve it, sometimes you don’t. But what the fuck is that, anyway? Death doesn’t just happen to ‘bad’ people, death doesn’t give a shit.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Passengers’ heads popped up as he bypassed the never-ending line for security at Los Angeles International Airport, but it only took a peek at that hat and tie to dissolve indignation into curiosity.”
― T.J. Newman, Falling

“Karen, I swear to god,” he said. “My name is Janice.” Daddy wrinkled his nose. “But is it?”
― T.J. Newman, Falling