Guftagu #454

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings.

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

Teenage crush is like flu. If you find a remedy for it, it lasts for a couple of days. If you don't, it still lasts for a couple of days.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Isn't it funny how just one little phone call or text can make your bad day suddenly wonderful !