“*Always schedule enough time between connections. I always like to give myself at least two hours between flights. It’s much easier to sit in the terminal for three hours than it is to sit on standby for two days because you missed your connection.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“The weather may not be at your point of origin. It may not even be at your destination. It could possibly be somewhere in the middle of your flight path, and it is obviously severe enough that the flight has to hold steady until it passes.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“If your pilot was supposed to land at 10pm and instead landed at 12am and only had the minimum amount of rest required by law before the next flight, then the flight will have to be delayed for two hours to ensure that the pilot is legally rested.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“When it comes to small children, they obviously need and have to be seated with their parents. If a flight attendant asks for you to switch to accommodate a family, try to be understanding”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“If you don’t want people walking in your house and putting their feet on your coffee table, then keep your feet where they belong.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“A normal configuration with three seats on each side will be lettered A, B, and C on the left side, starting at the window. Then D, E, and F on the right side, starting with the aisle.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“which most people ignore. There are a lot of FARs. So many FARs, in fact, that flight attendants have to carry around a little book at all times that gives reference to every FAR out there.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“If you are wondering why you have to put your bag under the seat in front of you, it is because you, and the people you share a row with, will need a clear path of exit during an emergency.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“When you fly on smaller planes, sometimes the seating arrangement has to be changed because of weight and balance.”
― quote from Why Your Flight Attendant Hates You
“If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero’s speeches are language as practical tool.”
― Thomas Cahill, quote from How the Irish Saved Civilization
“Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by twisting and bending around the wound: it is still recognizably a tree, it still lives as a tree, it still puts out its leaves and acorns, but its center, hidden deep within the curtain of green, remains empty and splintered where it hasn't been grotesquely scarred over. We are happy the tree hasn't died, and from the proper angle we can look on it and suppose that it is the same tree as it ever was, but it is not and never will be.”
― Robert Hicks, quote from The Widow of the South
“One of the biggest - and I would guess most common - mistakes parents make is to transfer their own childhood shit onto their kids. Whatever their joys and agonies were growing up, they assume will be exactly the same for their children, and they let it guide their parenting. I can see the same dumb instincts in myself. When I first started hanging out with my old boyfriend's kids, I found it depressing because I would just look at them and think of how miserable they must be, and how totally alone they must feel. To me, that's what childhood meant. But the truth was that they were fine. Happy-go-lucky, even.”
― Sarah Silverman, quote from The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“His demanding tongue tasted so damn good, and his piercing bit deliciously against her lip from the aggressive way he pursued her over and over. His hands tugged and massaged at her hair and neck. He just surrounded her. The difference in their height made Caden lean down over her. The way he forced her head back commanded her to open up to him. With the metal handle of the door pressing into her back, she felt completely enveloped in him, in his ardor, his scent. The world dropped away. There was just Caden.”
― Laura Kaye, quote from Hearts in Darkness
“I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.”
― Ellen Schreiber, quote from Cryptic Cravings
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