Hanging On Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Moving, Bridges, Over You

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• We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

  Paul Bowles

  Fall, Bumps, Way

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me," he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this apartment?" "I think that honor goes to Chairman Meow. He's only two." "I said newest, not youngest," Alec snapped.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Hate, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1845, Simon and Schuster

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• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fate, Our World, Chance

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mother, Cat, Dust

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

  Marie Lu

  Memories, Left Hanging, Ghost

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin

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• In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Rights, Order

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I’m so overwhelmed.” – Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Peaceful, Looks, Calm

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