Flight attendant Quote by Henry Rollins

“The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.”

— Markus Zusak

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms…

— Anne Carson

“I remember reading the Times in the subway, folding it awkwardly while leaning against the door, caught up in the words, worried about crashing…

— Gary Shteyngart

“A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The…

— Colum McCann

“When I get on an aircraft all I can see outside is wing.’ The American next to her had said, ‘Listen, Ma’am, you go…

— Ian Fleming

“A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when he finds…

— Anthony Doerr

“The lines on the page were pulled tight, like a man screaming, but not “Joe, where are you?” More like Joe, where is anything? ”

— Charles Bukowski

“The sound of pages flipping, the call of a gull, along with the muffled roar of the ocean and Samantha’s humming…all of it worked…

— Tessa Bailey

“Oh, the continual drunken diversity of flights and departures! Eternal soul of navigators and their navigations!”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Every now and then, a small plane arrives from nowhere – as tiny as the head of a match-stick – it flies around my…

— Zoltán Komor

“Today's all burnt toast, running late and Dad jokes, has anybody seen my left shoe? Close my eyes, take a bite, grab a ride,…

— Bridgit Mendler

“The PA system in the classroom beeped. Echo pulled her hand away from mine, ending perhaps the most erotic moment of my life. I…

— Katie McGarry