Quotes from Updraft

Fran Wilde ·  352 pages

Rating: (2.5K votes)


“On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“I tried to quash my anger and fear. If I was being set up to fail, then I would fail spectacularly.”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“Singers say ‘tradition’ when they don’t want to explain.” “It’s more than that.” Wik shook his head, struggling for patience. “It’s about our history. About how people work. Traditions hold the city together, like the bridges do the towers. Once, we had no traditions. Only fear and loss.” There”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“I did—and if my stomach hadn’t been emptier than the sky before a migration, I might have been sick with it.”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft



“An einem Morgen wie diesem war Furcht ein blauer Himmel, von dem alle Vögel verschwunden waren.”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“Worse, I had yet to go into open sky since the migration. The thought, even though the Singers had declared the skymouths gone for now and the skies safe, made my dinner feel like a pannier full of guano. Elna”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


“This was why Singers clung to tradition. To Laws. Surprises conflicted too much with duty. Sellis”
― Fran Wilde, quote from Updraft


About the author

Fran Wilde
Born place: Philadelphia, The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“those newbies after you in the first place?”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Evil Spy School


“And if they could shoot the rusting thing,” Wayne added, “the bullet would be small as a flea.”
Marasi sighed. “Wayne, can’t you ever let a joke die?”
“Hon, that joke started dead,” he said. “I’m just givin’ it a proper burial.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from The Bands of Mourning


“life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine. It’s hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it’s true that whatever you’re after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don’t know it yet.”
― Lauren Graham, quote from Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between


“El mito es reflejo de la realidad”.”
― Alejo Carpentier, quote from The Lost Steps


“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, quote from Studies in the Sermon on the Mount


Interesting books

Gentle Warrior
(13.5K)
Gentle Warrior
by Julie Garwood
Lady of Avalon
(18.5K)
Lady of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Sin Eater’s Daughter
(12.3K)
The Sin Eater’s Daug...
by Melinda Salisbury
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(28.3K)
Where the Mountain M...
by Grace Lin
Foam of the Daze: L'Ecume Des Jours
(20.6K)
Foam of the Daze: L'...
by Boris Vian
Nadja
(6.4K)
Nadja
by André Breton

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.