Quotes From "Circling The Sun" By Paula McLain

He stared into his coffee, thinking quietly. "But you've never been afraid of anything, have you?"" I have, though, " I said, surprised at my own emotion. "I've been terrified... I just haven't let it stop me Paula McLain

Flying demanded more courage and faith than I actually possessed, and it wanted my best, my whole self. I would have to work very hard to be any good at it at all, and be more than a little mad to be great, to give my life over to it. But that's just what I meant to do. Paula McLain

I had come alive here...this was my home, and though one day it would all trickle through my fingers like so much red dust, for as long as childhood lasted it was a heaven fitted exactly to me. A place I knew by heart. The one place in the world I'd been made for. Paula McLain

Sometimes when you're hurting, it helps to throw yourself at something that will take your weight. Paula McLain

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone. Paula McLain

Denys had a way of seeing everything as if he knew it would never be there exactly the same again. He understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistence or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend. Paula McLain