Girl on a Wire Quotes

“I hate it when people add “woman” to make an achievement seem smaller than it is. She was one of the best wire walkers ever. Period.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“I’m just a woman in the shadows, holding on to secrets so tightly I don’t know if there’ll be anything left, now that I’ve let them go.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“You throw caution to the wind, it may blow you away.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Being bold and being stupid aren’t the same. They’re as different as falling and flying.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Performers are never more unpredictable than when they’re full of adrenaline and failure.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“There are some things none of us can control, some consequences that must be faced.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free, Jules. Sometimes it cages you.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Fears are what cause falls.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“I would never trust anyone who didn’t get at least a little nervous on the cusp of doing something important to them in front of other people.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“I hate it when people add “woman” to make an achievement seem smaller than it is.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“I was an upside-down rose, a suspended drop of blood, a floating ballerina. I was alone on the wire. I was whatever I felt like being.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“You couldn’t just give someone a magic coin and expect them not to use it.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“One thing you learned early in the circus was that hesitation could be just as dangerous as acting rashly. You must keep moving or the audience has nothing to follow. With motion comes purpose. With motion comes discovery.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Aren’t you the king of the overnight breakthrough?” He rolled his eyes at himself. “You’re right. We don’t know. It just happens, after a million hours of work. And then we forget about the million hours.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Just what I needed: bizarre nightmares.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Fake it until you make it. Or, in this case, until I figured out whether the danger was real and who it was coming from.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“No one would ever guess I was beginning to have more questions than confidence.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“...champagne was an exception. Drinking it is simply telling life that its finer moments are appreciated.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Floods lit the other half of the building.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“Everything could end at any moment. The difference between life and death was one breath, one second, one act. And that meant that life was worth everything, every minute of every day.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire

“With motion comes purpose. With motion comes discovery.”
― Gwenda Bond, Girl on a Wire