The Tightrope Walker Quotes

“I mean, have you ever stopped to realize - not just the miracle that life is - but how basically comic it is despite its griefs? The wonder of it, as Amman Singh says, is that we take it so seriously. One day, poised on my tightrope, I hope to manage a glorious cartwheel, or at the very least a pirouette.”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Tightrope Walker

“The important thing is to carry the sun with you, inside of you at every moment, against the darkness. For there will be a great and terrifying darkness.”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Tightrope Walker

“we’re victims of each other.”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Tightrope Walker