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“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!”
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“The music defied classification. If I had been writing areview of the show, I would have labeled it progressive,guitar-driven rock n roll. But the guitars made sounds guitarsdidnt always make. Symp...”
“She wondered what it would be like to fly, to feel the air, cold and bracing on your face, to be able to spread wings whenever you felt cornered, to have the power to distance yourself at will, wei...”
“Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.”
“Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.”
“since words are all we have of wings.”
“September suddenly realized something. "But Ell, Orrery begins with O! How can you know so much about it?"The Wyverary soared high, his neck stretching into a long red ribbon, full of words and pie...”
“The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The earth grew spangled wi...”
“Suddenly, I saw ocean againthen another horizon linebut this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the linethe Holy crap, were upside down side.”
“And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.”
“He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.”
“...The means of choice:She might choose to ascendThe falling dream,By some angelic power without a nameReverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,Know height without an end,Density melt to air, sil...”
“Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”
“Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.”
“I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.”
“After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...”
