Flight Risk Quotes

“Perhaps it is impossible for people who don't have younger siblings - or, to be more precise, people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings - to imagine the huge and tender hollow that such caretaking carves out in a child.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“The legacy from my mother is eighteen things, and the last is the capacity to look at life fresh, to not give up.
To tell the truth about our fuckups and our wounds.
To let it hurt.
To change, to let go, to start over - the willingness to keep starting over, for as long as we have and as long as it takes.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“It's a hard fact, Daughter, but pretend love feels better than no love at all.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“I didn't want to go inside, to nod at condolences, to taste that mixture of casseroles and grief.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“Sometimes I think of us all, temporarily inhabiting the same vehicles, the same streets, but with our networks of love overlapping, like layers upon layers of spiderwebs until the whole thing is a dense, silver mesh so strong that no one can pull it apart. Envisioning this thick, tenacious web of love helps me feel less irritable when people are hopelessly slow or bump me with their baggage. I think, "We don't even know each other, but you love someone as much as I do, and somewhere there's a person waiting for you who'd be wrecked if you didn't come home. " That awareness of love - all around, all the time, flowing - somehow buoys me up, makes me tender and patient, when I'm in public , where it seems we become so easily exasperated with each other.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“Rich people fetishize even what they eschew, the food they cannot eat: it makes them special. Here in Chicago, having people over for dinner is a logistical feat. Some of our friends are gluten-free by choice, while others decline all refined sugar on principle; some are vegan and some merely ovo-lacto vegetarian; some won’t consume palm oil because of the rainforests and tiger habitats. Some are on that paleo diet, while others are merely lactose intolerant. It takes a spreadsheet.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings—to imagine the huge and tender hollow that such caretaking carves out in a child.”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk

“clear rubber gas mask”
― Joy Castro, Flight Risk