Gina Linko > Quotes

“Once you are no longer afraid, once you are no longer prisoner to the what-ifs and the if-onlys, there's a pocket of calm in the middle of the craziness. As if you can see things as they really are instead of just how you wish them to be, or how they could be, if this place - this life - wasn't so messed up, so contrary.”
― Gina Linko, Flutter

“You can't always save the ones you love from being hurt.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“It's as simple as this: Life is good; life is bad. Sometimes it's really good; sometimes it's really bad.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“Maybe that was what growing up was, understanding where the real magic lived in this world. Inside our very own hearts.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“I think a lot of science can seem like magic before it's explained properly. Sometimes we don't have the observations, the data, or the right words yet to explain it. Surely there was a time long ago when people watched a butterfly emerge from a chrysalis and thought of it as magic.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“All of this registered in an instant, and i felt the whoosh and hum behind my eyes. I felt my eyes flutter, my body stiffen. I was gone.”
― Gina Linko, Flutter

“Sometimes impossible things are true things.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“I think some things – great things, awesome things- only come around once in a long while, and you gotta snatch 'em up. Hold them close. 'Cause you won't get anything quite that rare and special again anytime soon.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“Things change. People change. Everything changes. The universe is in a flux. Energy reinventing itself constantly.”
― Gina Linko, Flower Moon

“But then the fire crackled and the moment was gone. I had secrets, baggage. He did too. He let go of my hand.”
― Gina Linko, Flutter