A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you’ve been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Flying
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Expectation
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Evolution
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Marriage
Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
—Shana Alexander
The mark of a true crush
Is that you fall in love first
And grope for reasons afterward.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Love
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Realism, Reality
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Excellence
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
—Shana Alexander
Topics: Difficulty
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