Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. “You’re going to die when you’re supposed to die. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-white ankle bones where her feet used to be. I had never seen the whiteness of bones that are freshly exposed like that. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up,” Martz said. “I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>