Gwendoline Riley Quotes & Sayings

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it — Gwendoline Riley

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut. — Gwendoline Riley

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time. — Gwendoline Riley

I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as. — Gwendoline Riley

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship. — Gwendoline Riley

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it. — Gwendoline Riley

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have. — Gwendoline Riley

I don't think it ever ocurred to me to aim for happyness, though. I mean, do you do that? No, just try to get trough with as little pain as possible, that's the way ... — Gwendoline Riley

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love. — Gwendoline Riley

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so. — Gwendoline Riley

He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted. — Gwendoline Riley

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again.
I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light. — Gwendoline Riley

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens. — Gwendoline Riley

Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas. — Gwendoline Riley

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'
He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time. — Gwendoline Riley

He lies down next to me.
He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/'
'Well, don't die,' I say, we just met. — Gwendoline Riley