Bridges Quote by Margaret Atwood

“If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.” quote by Margaret Atwood — Download Open image

“If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.”

Margaret Atwood

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Bridges Easy Enough Fallen Good enough Hanging on Let me Let me go Moving Over you Quiet

More by Margaret Atwood

“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…

margaret atwood

Image

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,…

Margaret Atwood

Explore all 2,073 Margaret Atwood quotes

More Bridges quotes

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Omari Hardwick

Image

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

Julia Glass

Image

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things…

Roger Waters

Image

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all…

Robert Benchley

The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,…

Ronald Reagan

Image

The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For…

Anonymous

When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you…

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Image

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge…

Elizabeth Strout

Al Pacino and Jeff Bridges do it for me in a big way.

Angela Scanlon

Image

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Image

Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken…

Junot Diaz

Image

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is…

Carl Rogers

Image

Browse all 1,462 Bridges quotes

Bridges Quote by Margaret Atwood

Related quotes

More by Margaret Atwood

More Bridges quotes