Isabelle Simonson’s Reviews > Her Last Flight > Status Update

“I was furious. For throwing himself away like that, when we loved him so much. For making us wake up every morning and find a way to go on without him.” - 367

“I accepted the cost because I wanted the prize so much. But then it went out of balance. The cost kept climbing, and the prize meant less and less. And I felt I had lost myself.” - 248

“I’ve got a whole lifetime of moments. The question’s whether I should spend any more of them with you.” - 224

“I’ll tell you the truth. I just don’t know if it will be enough for you.” - 194

“Just tell me you care. Say that I’m not the only one of us lying here at night, burning up with love for somebody who isn’t mine.” - 186

186 and 187 are soooo good, the writing?!?!

“Probably this is the meaning of heaven. You search and search, you think you glimpse it from time to time, in the aftermath of lovemaking or the bottom of a bottle of good champagne, and always it eludes you.” - 117

“Aviation happens to be at the vanguard of all that’s daring and courageous in American manhood. They are the last remaining pioneers, these men, the last fellows willing to die to expand the frontiers of human capability.” - 70

“ I’ll tell you something, the facts are the least important thing about a person.” “Oh? So what’s important?” “The fictions. The lies we tell other people, the lies we tell to ourselves. The stories we make of our lives, the heroes we fashion of our own clay. The myths of our own creation. Those are the real stuffing of a person…What makes each of us different from the other fellow.” - 32