Airborn Quotes

He was the kind of man everyone felt safer being around. If he'd been wearing a velvet robe and crown, he'd be the very image of a great king; if he were in a doctor's jacket, you'd trust your life...

Well, there was no shortage of fanciful stories about winged things. Angels and dragons, sky kelpies and cloud sphinxes. They always turned out to be something else: a glare off the water, shadows...

My mother would never buy [the perfume] for herself; she said it was a luxury we could not afford, but my father used to tell her everyone, no matter how poor, deserved at least one luxury. (2.2)

Sailmaker! This was my great chance. If I could become junior sailmaker, then maybe one day I could become head sailmaker, then rudder man, watch officer—and one day, just maybe, captain of a shi...

Rich, then, this Kate de Vries. I couldn't help feeling sorry for her, though, shackled to a chaperone and one like Miss Simpkins at that! (2.98)

A cocky young fool I'd been, assuming I'd be a junior sailmaker. Me with no Academy training, and no wealth to help advance me. Of course I'd be pushed aside by the likes of Otto Lunardi's boy. I f...

"Thank you, sir, but I'm happy here." And I was. This ship, the Aurora, was more home to me than the little apartment in Lionsgate City. Over the past three years, I'd spent scarcely any time on la...

Kate's grandfather had started out in Cape Town to catch the jet stream and traveled quickly eastward over the Indian Ocean. But over Australia his luck ran out, and he got shunted off course to th...