Quote by Allan J. Ashinoff

“The moment before he started to suspect that there were punishments for those who dared to dream so big, to fly so high.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.”

— Shaun Hick

“I was at Gatwick and I was a mess: breathlessly excited, horribly nervous and hoping, praying, that this might be it. That the man…

— Lucy Robinson

“His ascent was slow - the blow to the head must have disoriented him worse than he let on - so I went behind,…

— Jodi Meadows

“He tilted his head to one side, considering me, his weathered face impossible to read. But his voice was kind as he said, "There…

— Jennifer Echols

“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards…

— Marcel Proust

“He went absolutely still for a split second, an error message flashing wildly in his brain. Another second passed before he resumed breathing, then…

— C.C. Gibbs

“I was once told that flying involves long hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of extreme fright.”

— Franklin W. Dixon

“Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.”

— L.A. Weatherly

“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.”

— Lorrie Moore

“He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on…

— John le Carré

“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson