Flying Solo Quotes

“You don't have to be single to be independent and you don't have to be married to be loved.”
― Linda Holmes

“But if you’re surprised that I’m excited to see Lisa after four days, then I’m glad you didn’t marry Chris. Because you deserve to miss the hell out of somebody after four days, and you deserve to have them miss you too.”
― Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

“He just missed me.” “Any particular reason?” Laurie asked. June smiled. “Because I’m not there.”
― Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

“Nostalgia is toxic, false, and impulse based in a desire to escape the present into the imagined past.”
― Linda Holmes

“It's a system rigged against women who want those same twenty years of doing whatever they want.”
― Linda Holmes

“Well that's a system too but you don't think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.”
― Linda Holmes

“I feel like it's a very indiscriminate 'hey.' I feel like these guys go through and 'hey' at eight hundred women, and they see who will 'hey' back. like they're blowing a horn at the top of a mountain and waiting for goats to come running.”
― Linda Holmes

“I find the way you approach this exhausting.”
― Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

“In a lot of ways, this is a book about all the ways that people life you up and take care of you.”
― Linda Holmes

“I think getting information you didn't ask is one of the basic features of dating apps.”
― Linda Holmes

“You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved.”
― Linda Holmes