73 Quotes by Gwenda Bond

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.

I hate it when people add “woman” to make an achievement seem smaller than it is.

The man was a bully. A bully who’d elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.

Find that thing, the one that feels right to you even though it’s hard.

I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you’d made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.

I know you don’t want to be me. But I’d hate for you to ever feel like you’re in my shadow. You’re not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

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.

I was many things, but I wasn’t a quitter. I didn’t give up, and I wasn’t going to start.

There are some things none of us can control, some consequences that must be faced.