A Bird of the Air (2011)

Linda Emond: Margie

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Margie : Upside down people, the graveyard shift. Whatever you call us. We're the ones working at night while you sleep. We look out for each other. Or, I looked out for Lyman, and he looked out for everyone else. But off the road he thought everyone else had read the big instruction manual. Lyman wasn't gonna talk until he had it all figured out. Riding that highway loop night after night was the only job he'd ever had, unless you count all the classes he took at the Community College. Oh he learned lots of things, just not the basics, and they aren't in the books.

• Margie : Some people talk to say something. Some when they have something to say.

• Margie : They were talking hard. Like there was a fire somewhere, and only their words could put it out.

• Duncan Weber : Cars don't break down as often, but people need me as much as ever. I don't know, it just doesn't seem to mean much anymore.

  Margie : You'll find it again, like your parrot. Being lost is only temporary.