The Summer Skies Quotes

“This bread has been anointed by God, I said to myself. He wants me to have it.... All I know is, when I am old, gray and bedbound and everything else has gone, I will still remember how good it tasted.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“And behind them there was a blank of clearest blue, almost cheeky, as if the entire sky was protesting innocence about ever having caused a storm, no way, not me.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“Here, though, in front of my eyes was a churn; an unhappy maelstrom of three elements - air, earth and water - all at war with one another, wrestling for territory, demanding and striking one another. You could not see where the ground began, or see if the rain was coming from up, down, left or right. There were no glimpses of the moon or stars through the fast-moving clouds. Only the regular forks of lightning zapping through showed any direction in the madness.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“There is, by the way, lots of training - lots - about how to get a plane safely down on the ground or onto water. There is absolutely nothing that tells you what comes next. Once you've got the plane down and everyone more or less safely out of the aircraft, there's not much after that. Presumable you're meant to be set upon by cheering hordes who hoist you up on their shoulders.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“I have never killed anyone - I realize that's not a statement most people ever have to make out loud but sometimes as a pilot you just do - but I would say the closest I got to it was just there and then specifically. I screamed back of course - I didn't know screams were contagious, but they are.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“But I held no interest for the bird. It circled away from the house, banking so lazily I could only dream of being that elegant in flight. I could watch the air rippling its feathers as it flew, could see the diagram I knew so well, of airflow and airspeed over the wings. In my world, on a plane, it was comparatively so clumsy and mechanical as it was made of computer design and fuel and force and gears and wires. In theirs, it was an effortless, natural fusion of hollow bones and a pure instinct for the wind.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“Or, if you were that way inclined, you could think of yourself sitting on the spine of a great beast, only the vertebrae visible. That was how people thought of it in the old days: something was sleeping beneath the waves, and if you were very lucky it let you live on its bumps.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“The sun is shining, there's provisions, it's nesting season, the chooks are laying and we have peat for the fire; I genuinely don't see what you're worried about.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“...normally it's in like a lion, out like an even more annoyed lion, who is also drunk, but sometimes - just sometimes - the sun does come properly out and it feels like a benediction.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“...I found myself an unusual feeling: wanting to do something for solely the pure reasons that I wanted to do it. Not because I thought I ought to or because other people wanted me to do it or because it felt like the right age to be doing things or because it would lead me up the ladder.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies

“Dating in daylight was a completely preposterous affair, I had decided that morning. Dating stone-cold sober in the clear light of day was an absurd development.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Summer Skies