Flight Quotes

“When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“lives we’ll have, the people we’re becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“But she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still thought I might become.....It feels harder--fucking terrifying--that there is no longer any person in the world who loves me like she did.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“But she’s the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I’d ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still thought I might become . . . It feels harder—fucking terrifying—that there is no longer any person in the world who loves me like she did.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still thought I might become...It feels harder--fucking terrifying--that there is no longer any person in the world who loves me like she did.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“if they don’t keep hold of one another, she, maybe both of them, will fall again.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“She won’t say this part out loud to Kate—she’s not quite capable of saying shame out loud.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“This was not tragic, was the main thing. She’d yearned, she saw now, sometimes in her twenties, to be tragic.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

“This is an old fight, too worn out to hit too sharply—shorthand for all the ways that neither woman would have chosen what the other has, for all the ways that neither of them is what the other might have wished she were.”
― Lynn Steger Strong, Flight