Gemma Malley Quotes & Sayings

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are. — Gemma Malley

He said to me that we belonged toghether because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that Flower and Butterfly need each other to survive — Gemma Malley

The true scientist lets truth emerge. — Gemma Malley

Fame, infamy, they're of the same family. — Gemma Malley

Life is a changeable thing. — Gemma Malley

You are on the side of angels. But even angels fall, sometimes. We all make mistakes; without them we would learn nothing. — Gemma Malley

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow. — Gemma Malley

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things. — Gemma Malley

Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over. — Gemma Malley

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her. — Gemma Malley

I think flowers can be just as important as food, sometimes. I think id depends what you're hungry for. — Gemma Malley

We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not. — Gemma Malley

It doesn't feel dangerous, it feels exciting, even though they're probably the same thing. — Gemma Malley

Danger manifests itself in many ways, Peter. Brilliance of mind can be as dangerous as a loaded weapon. — Gemma Malley

Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person's needs before your own. — Gemma Malley

The truth was that she'd never realised how absorbing it could be to write. — Gemma Malley

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed. — Gemma Malley

The snow is not falling for you. — Gemma Malley

But was falling such a bad thing, she wondered. Was it, perhaps better to see the top of the mountain, even if only for a moment, than never to even try? Or was it that the higher you allow yourself to climb, the further you have to come crashing down to earth? — Gemma Malley

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
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Imagination shows an ability to lie, to pretend the world is different than it is. — Gemma Malley

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival. — Gemma Malley

But I do know that the world is the most beautiful place and that we're lucky to be here. I know that we have to live every moment, because we won't be here forever, and that I wouldn't want to be anyway. Because knowing something's going to end makes you appreciate it more, makes you want to savour every moment. — Gemma Malley

It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious. — Gemma Malley

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival. — Gemma Malley

Usually she loved to learn new words, treating them as exciting possessions that she could employ as she chose-in her journal, in her conversation-relishing the newness and beauty of each one. — Gemma Malley

You mustn't try to hold on to things that are past their sell-by date. — Gemma Malley

But it was a restless sleep, and throughout the night her dreams were filled with crying children, a woman screaming and a little butterfly, trapped in a cold, grey prison. — Gemma Malley

Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control. — Gemma Malley

There's a whole world out there, Anna, a whole world for us to explore. — Gemma Malley

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived. — Gemma Malley

When you are weak, attack-it is the best defence. — Gemma Malley

Curiosity also makes a great student. — Gemma Malley

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat? — Gemma Malley

Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control. — Gemma Malley

Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas. — Gemma Malley

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones. — Gemma Malley

Because man still feared death, feared disappearing into nothingness, feared how death made each life insignificant. — Gemma Malley

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again. — Gemma Malley

Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it? — Gemma Malley

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place. — Gemma Malley

The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves. — Gemma Malley

Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still. — Gemma Malley

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think. — Gemma Malley

What does time matter when every moment is stolen anyway? — Gemma Malley

HELPING ME You think mr think I was infertile having to tell Anna she ... that she.. — Gemma Malley

I vow to serve, to pay my dues
And train myself for Legal use.
I vow to bear the Surplus shame
And repay Nature for the same
I vow to listen, not to speak;
To steel myself when I am weak.
I vow to work and most of all
To serve the State if it should call. — Gemma Malley

They let you down, you let them down, then they're your best friend, until next time. — Gemma Malley

Sometimes her curiosity got the better of her and she found herself furtively asking questions about his life before Grange Hall, pretending as she did so that she wasn't really that interested. The truth was that Peter was a window through which Anna could glimpse the world outside, and the temptation to keep looking was quite overwhelming. — Gemma Malley

Fear made people forget themselves ... Fear was a terribly destructive force. — Gemma Malley

The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to us: people with views that contradict ours, societies that are run along very different lines. — Gemma Malley

Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse. — Gemma Malley

You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn't cause suffering and pain. — Gemma Malley

All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell. — Gemma Malley

You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you. — Gemma Malley

Long life, short life-did it matter when each day was the same, when humans were incapable of living for the moment because of their fundamental need for order, for the comfort of everyday routine. — Gemma Malley

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder. — Gemma Malley

But there was nothing beautiful about the word "brainwash". To clean the brain. To strip it bare. — Gemma Malley

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved.
— Gemma Malley

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter. — Gemma Malley

Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest. — Gemma Malley

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all of it, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see into his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. And now, sometimes, when it was just the two of them, when he smelt her hair, caught her eye, he felt as though he knew all there was to know about everything, as though they knew the secret of life. A secret far more powerful than Longevity, far more long-lasting. — Gemma Malley

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing. — Gemma Malley

But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were. — Gemma Malley

But each time, nothing was done, because change carried risks, because change led to instability, because new technology meant using precious energy, and because, at the end of the day, no one really cared. — Gemma Malley

The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless. — Gemma Malley