When you are truly afraid, you experience an urgent desire to split from your body. You want to remove yourself from the thing that will experience pain and horror, but you are that thing. You are aboard a sinking ship, and you are the ship itself. But, flying, fear can't be permitted. To inhabit yourself fully is your only hope and, beyond that, to make the airplane a part of yourself, also. - Marian Graves.

A fascinating story - I think I read this right when I was supposed to read it. Somehow, the universe knew I was going to feel lost in my aviation journey due to the infinite paths one can take, and the death of my instructor. The same day I read about Marian's instructor dying, is the same day my own flight instructor passed away. The chapters after that seemed to come to me at the right time - every chapter I read, at the time that I read it, fit right into my healing and state of mind at that specific time. 
I've never experienced something like that; a surreal experience. 
Every time I think of my aviation career, somehow, Marian Graves is now mixed into it. Every time I fly now, she is a part of me, and gives me strength when I'm scared. Every time I feel doubt, Marian's love and passion for flight becomes a part of me. 

I feel like no rating will truly be fitting for this novel. I didn't love it like a 5 star, but it is now a part of me, and has made a huge impact. 

I feel like Hadley, the actress who plays Marian: "Mostly I felt relief. And a little hit of amazement. And then I must have slipped back into being Marian Graves because, for a second, I felt free.