Kate Lord Brown Quotes & Sayings

I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air. — Kate Lord Brown

Change is the one sure thing in life — Kate Lord Brown

The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something. — Kate Lord Brown

Your home is within you, you carry your place in the world. — Kate Lord Brown

Nothing matters more than the love we leave behind. — Kate Lord Brown

Freya, I killed a man. — Kate Lord Brown

You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl. — Kate Lord Brown

I'll never forget what she said to me about having a baby. She said that she would wake in the morning to my cries, and wonder how she would get through another day. Perhaps Freya wasn't a natural mother - some women aren't, I suppose, and it can't have been easy for her. — Kate Lord Brown

Perfume is the key to our memories — Kate Lord Brown

What I've learnt is: buy the damn shoes. Kiss the boy. You can lose a life in indecision, and regret is a waste of an emotion. — Kate Lord Brown

Brillat-Savarin, said: 'Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are.' He had it wrong. It's not just what we eat that shows who we are, it's what we buy but don't eat that says more about the people we think we are. Or want to be. Look at the ingredients in your cupboards. All those hopes and dreams. — Kate Lord Brown

Every flight is a gamble. If we don't smash into a cloud bound hillside, we might be picked off like a defenceless lamb by a lone wolf Messerschmitt with a gaping maw painted on its fuselage. — Kate Lord Brown

My whole life, I've felt I was homesick for somewhere I'd never known.' She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it 'hiraeth' - a longing for home. — Kate Lord Brown

Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward? — Kate Lord Brown

There are few things emptier than the space where a Christmas tree used to be. — Kate Lord Brown

If you ride the bucking peaks and troughs of celebrity long enough you become a national treasure. If you have the sense to die in mysterious circumstances you become a legend — Kate Lord Brown

That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living. — Kate Lord Brown

She lies with me, and I am home. I am filled with so much joy I could fly right up there above the beach, the sea, our world, with her. I can't bear it, it is so beautiful.
It all falls away.
I loved, I am love, I am free. — Kate Lord Brown

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe. — Kate Lord Brown

Love and loss come in equal measure. — Kate Lord Brown