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The Bridges of Madison County QUOTES

The Bridges of Madison County QUOTES

1 " In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

2 " It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

3 " And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

4 " Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

5 " We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

6 " The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

7 " I don't like feeling sorry for myself. That's not who I am. And most of the time I don't feel that way. Instead, I am grateful for having at least found you. We could have flashed by one another like two pieces of cosmic dust.

God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.

But, I am, after all, a man. And all the philosophic rationalizations I can conjure up do not keep me from wanting you, every day, every moment, the merciless wail of time, of time I can never spend with you, deep within my head.

I love you, profoundly and completely. And I always will.

The last cowboy,

Robert "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

8 " The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

9 " Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

10 " [...] no soy más que un hombre. Y todas las elucubraciones filosóficas que puedo conjurar no me salvan de desearte, todos los días, a cada momento ni el despiadado gemido del tiempo, el tiempo que nunca puedo pasar contigo, dentro de mi cabeza.
Te amo profundamente, totalmente.
Y será siempre así. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

11 " Parte del problema, pensó, era la inercia de la costumbre prolongada. Todos los matrimonios, todas las relaciones son susceptibles a ella. La costumbre trae lo predecible, y lo predecible a su vez trae sus propias ventajas; eso también lo percibía "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

12 " Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

13 " I was wrong, Robert. I was wrong, but I can't go. Let me tell you again why I can't go. Tell me again why I should go. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

14 " They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

15 " Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand, is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

16 " The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

17 " Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

18 " The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

19 " I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

20 " So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity. "

― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County