Top 50 Gwenda Bond Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Courage doesn’t mean never being afraid. We’re all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That’s true strength.”

— Gwenda Bond

2. “Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.”

— Gwenda Bond

3. “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

4. “Being bold and being stupid aren’t the same. They’re as different as falling and flying.”

— Gwenda Bond

5. “I was not born to wait.”

— Gwenda Bond

6. “Fear didn’t suit me.”

— Gwenda Bond

7. “Monsters,′ she said., ‘of course my brain has them.’ As long as they stayed in there, everything would be all right. Wouldn’t it?”

— Gwenda Bond

8. “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

9. “My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I’d almost gotten trapped in here, and now I’d come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.”

— Gwenda Bond

10. “Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free, Jules. Sometimes it cages you.”

— Gwenda Bond

11. “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

12. “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.”

— Gwenda Bond

13. “Sometimes, if you have faith in people they’ll surprise you. Mom and Dad taught me that. Risk is the price of believing most people want to be good.”

— Gwenda Bond

14. “Floods lit the other half of the building.”

— Gwenda Bond

15. “It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.”

— Gwenda Bond

16. “You throw caution to the wind, it may blow you away.”

— Gwenda Bond

17. “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

18. “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

19. “The thrill of working in this building, with its iconic globe on top, would never fade.”

— Gwenda Bond

20. “Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout.”

— Gwenda Bond

21. “The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at them, that made my fingers move faster – it was becoming one of my favorite sensations on earth.”

— Gwenda Bond

22. “No one would ever guess I was beginning to have more questions than confidence.”

— Gwenda Bond

23. “I didn’t mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.”

— Gwenda Bond

24. “For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward.”

— Gwenda Bond

25. “The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.”

— Gwenda Bond

26. “This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn’t working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.”

— Gwenda Bond

27. “When it’s our government involved, I think you’ll find our rights are often to be determined.”

— Gwenda Bond

28. “We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.”

— Gwenda Bond

29. “He listens when I talk.”

— Gwenda Bond

30. “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.”

— Gwenda Bond

31. “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

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

— Gwenda Bond

33. “Please, I’m your friend – inside that tough-girl shell is a really tough girl. But you’re motivated by how much you care. Being part of Team Lois, it’s an honor. There’s nothing you wouldn’t do for any of us.”

— Gwenda Bond

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

— Gwenda Bond

35. “With motion comes purpose. With motion comes discovery.”

— Gwenda Bond

36. “There probably were things worse than the guy you had a crush on saying that kind of thing about your sister, but not many. Maddy could do way better than teeth-and-hair guy.”

— Gwenda Bond

37. “Oh no. Maybe I’d gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking? Should I have waited for her to offer up details?”

— Gwenda Bond

38. “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

39. “Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.”

— Gwenda Bond

40. “I had no idea if I was doing the friend thing right or utterly screwing it up.”

— Gwenda Bond

41. “I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.”

— Gwenda Bond

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

— Gwenda Bond

43. “You couldn’t just give someone a magic coin and expect them not to use it.”

— Gwenda Bond

44. “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

45. “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.”

— Gwenda Bond

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

— Gwenda Bond

47. “Performers are never more unpredictable than when they’re full of adrenaline and failure.”

— Gwenda Bond

48. “Maybe this was what being an adult was like. Not the in-control knows-everything feeling everyone pretended it was, but the constant sensation that everything was moving too fast and there was no way to slow it down.”

— Gwenda Bond

49. “I’d forgotten to account for the dystopian hell zone that was LA traffic.”

— Gwenda Bond

50. “I didn’t like showing weakness, not to anybody.”

— Gwenda Bond