The Pilot's Wife Quotes

#1. But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

Moira Young

#2. When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe ... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

Ed O'Neill

#3. I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.

Anita Shreve

#4. My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Robyn Carr

#5. To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Anita Shreve

#6. I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people think they will master writing overnight, or that they are as good as they will ever be.

Tananarive Due

#7. Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

Steve Backley

#8. I'm a below-the-radar girl. No one really knows anything about me.

Traylor Howard

#9. Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.

Beth Littleford

#10. Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.

Kahlil Gibran

#11. But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

Anita Shreve

#12. I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Voltaire

#13. When it comes to our most precious commodity, our own health, many of us are like sheep following whatever our doctors and insurance companies and other medical care providers tell us to do and not to do.
about our health.

Archelle Georgiou

#14. If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

Louise Thaden

#15. And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Anita Shreve

#16. I think you will like your life in the Transport Service, but it'll be far from normal. Being a slave ... or a goatherd's wife ... is closer to normal. A deep-space response ship pilot is a very, very rare thing.

J.Z. Colby

#17. The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

George Brandis

#18. Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Anita Shreve

#19. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?"
"My gun."
Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a gun?"
"It was a very good gun.

Gordon Korman

#20. The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it is horrible. It's like a fart in church.

Margaret Atwood

#21. He who cannot dance blames the song.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. All that matters on the stage is good art.

Jerzy Jeszke