Author Quote by Tim O'Brien

“There was a water-drop, it joined the sea, A speck of dust, it was fused with earth; what of your entering and leaving this…

— Omar Khayyam

“A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing.”

— Tana French

“Flight is just a fall that never reaches the ground.”

— Neil Hilborn

“It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like…

— Margaret Atwood

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a…

— Steven Galloway

“it felt as if she’d floated up above the clouds to the edge of space and was now surrounded by a vacuum of nothing.…

— Susan May

“Yes, Minister, it turns out that there was a mysterious force that caused that plane to crash. We call it gravity.”

— Daniel O'Malley

“I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after…

— Italo Calvino

“It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known…

— John Fowles

“It seemed as he had been falling for years. Fly, a voice whispered in the darkness, but Bran did not know how to fly,…

— George R.R. Martin

“It was dark, and there was light. Flashing, burning. There was warmth, and there was ice. Melting, oozing. I was flying, but I had…

— Carian Cole

“I read somewhere that flying is like throwing your soul into the heavens and racing to catch it as it falls." "I don't think…

— Linda Howard