Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I'm told girls dream of being wives, but wifedom seems an awful lot like defeat dressed up as victory. We're celebrated for marrying, but after that we must cede all territory and answer to a new authority like a vanquished nation.”
“Does she regret the flight? She decides she doesn’t. She would have peered out of the cockpit and into something bottomless and unfathomable sooner or later. At some point she would have found the edge of her own courage. There is nothing for it but to adjust, be humbled. So she is not exactly who she had thought. So what. She will be someone different.”
“One thing I've learned is that you don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them. And then you have to mourn both. [Jamie Graves]”
“We are confined to the present, but this moment we're living now has, for all of history, been the future. And now, forever more, it will be past. Everything we do sets off unforeseeable, irreversible chain reactions.”
“She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.”
“When you are truly afraid, you experience an urgent desire to split from your body. You want to remove yourself from the thing that will experience pain and horror, but you are that thing. You are aboard a sinking ship, and you are the ship itself.”
“One thing I learned is that you don’t just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them. And then you have to mourn both.”
“Closure doesn't really exist....That's why we're always looking for it. [Hadley Baxter]”
“there is too much of the world and too little of life.”
“What is that around your eyes? You look like a raccoon.”
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Book Keywords:
loss, closure, love
