take off Quotes

“Even in those days she’d held herself poised for immediate flight; she had always been ready to take off the minute she happened to feel like it (“Don’t talk to me that way, Frank, or I’m leaving. I mean it”) or the minute anything went wrong.”

“They can’t take the smiles off their faces. They got away with it. No one saw them slip under the school fence in the long grass. Now they’re free to wag all day.”