Gemma Quotes & Sayings

Dreams come from darkness and darkness lives in dreams. — Gemma Newey

...most ghosts are a rag and a bone and a hank of hair at best--a memory fragment stuck on continual loop, just dust and PKE and water-vapour with no real "there" there. Leftover fragments of psychic energy deluded into believing in their own personality; an echo cobbled together from memory and pain, with no self-awareness as such 'cept what we give them. Survival instinct, with no survival. — Gemma Files

Gemma shrugged. "It seems you have only yourself to blame for that misunderstanding. — K.M. Shea

Oy, your karma really sucks, bubbee. You musta been Hitler in a former life or something. — Gemma Halliday

Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game ... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me. — Julie Johnson

Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship. — Gemma Burgess

Here's what I think ... There is no unfucked up. People think there is, but there's not. We're all fucked up in different ways. It's simply a question of making your fuck-ups work for you.-Aidan — Gemma Burgess

Gemma had blond hair and blue eyes. I did not.
Gemma was always an A student. I was more of a B-all-you-can-be kind of gal.
When Gemma was into science, I was into skipping.
When Gemma was into foreign languages, I was into the hot Italian guy down the street. — Darynda Jones

I need to be casual but not too casual. Dressy but not too dressy. I need him to think I just threw on the first thing I found and that I'm not taking this too seriously or overthinking it or even that I was thinking about it at all. Because I'm not. I'm totally not thinking about him, and I don't want him to think I was thinking about him, but I don't want him to think that I'm not thinking about him, because clearly he thought about me enough to ask me out and it would be mean not to be thinking about him at all, so I need just the right amount of thinking, and I'm not sure if that means boots and a skirt or skinny jeans and ballet flats. Help! — Gemma Halliday

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head. — Gemma Halliday

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else. — Gemma Arterton

Gemma talking to Charley ...
"Got it. Have you seen my pants?"
"Speaking of which, how did you get home without them?"
"I borrowed a pair of you sweats. I ran into a convenience store with them on. I talked to neighbors out in their yard when I pulled up. And only after I got inside did I realize the had 'Exit Only' written across the back."
"You stole my favorite sweats?"
"I wanted to die."
"It's weird that sweats would make you suicidal. I'd analyze the crap out of that if I were you."
"Do you actually wear those in public?"
"Only when I go out in them — Darynda Jones

There were plenty of things I showed Chantel in the chateau, Gemma. So, depending on where you want to be, you need to be much more specific." His tongue comes out to moisten his full bottom lip. "Then again, perhaps that's exactly where you want to be after your indecision last night on the stairs, hmm...between Chantel and me? — Ella Frank

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful. — Gemma Chan

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've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental. — Gemma Arterton

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

Chase leaned in close. "hey" What?
Are you wearing perfume? No ... why would I be wearing perfume? ... You sure you're not wearing anything? It smells like jasmine. Must be the bushes — Gemma Halliday

'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds. — Gemma Galgani

It's always easier to walk away. — Gemma Burgess

We actually wanted to ask you a few questions. About the interview you did this morning."
At the mention of her KTVU debut, Caitlyn softened a little. "You saw that?"
I nodded.
"How did I look on camera?"
Her grief was touching. — Gemma Halliday

But ... you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again. — Libba Bray

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files

Do you know how much a freaking baby costs? A million dollars. — Gemma Halliday

I love natural redheads. — Gemma James

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there? — Kat Falls

I'm pretty sure Mom and Dad didn't see me coming, either: the kid with the black moods, the kid whose mind was always elsewhere, flinching from real life as from a bruise. Who wanted to lay a fiction-filter on top of everything and pretend it was something else just to keep the sheer disappointment of it all bearable: this limited, empirical experience of ours, trapped inside a decaying shell of meat, mainly able to perceive that nothing lasts, even in our most pleasurable moments. — Gemma Files

...I feel pity that she will never fully understand what it is to be loved and forgiven, then loved even more." Pastel Orphans — Gemma Liviero

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy! — Gemma Arterton

Which leads me to ask ... what exactly are you going to do when we get there?"
I thought about it. "Rip Josh's nuggets off and feed them to his hamster? — Gemma Halliday

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it. — Gemma Files

As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon — Gemma Jackson

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

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot. — Gemma Ward

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think. — Libba Bray

Funny word, that: "fault." As in San Andreas. The crack through which one world intersects with the next, or vice versa. This crack in my head, still gaping open--a magnet, a haematoma, a dark and spreading pool. A cigarette-burn hole in the fabric of everything I see, or hear, or do; right in the middle, impossible to mend, impossible to disguise. Impossible to ignore. — Gemma Files

That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!! — Gemma Halliday

Miracles, black, white, and grey all over. Like light on a wall, telling a story; like magic. Like cinema itself. — Gemma Files

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love. — Gemma Galgani

Could you look again, please?" the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. "It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao. — Libba Bray

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

Walked without a destination. Explored without a purpose. — Gemma Burgess

I'm going crazy. I want this man to posess me. I want him inside of me. I want him any way I can get him. — Ella Frank

What do you think Gemma? Do you like being painted this way?" All I can think is that being painted by him feels a lot like being fucked by him, but he already knows that. — Ella Frank

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

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head. — Gemma Ward

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

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about. — Gemma Arterton

Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn't speak too freely or behave ... strangely?
I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French. — Libba Bray

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me. — Libba Bray

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

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

Really liking your job isn't the same as loving it. — Gemma Brocato

I was panting by the time we reached the back of the casino. I felt perspiration run down my back and my sandals pinch my feet. They were adorable, but they were not made for chasing bad guys. Nevertheless, I kept going, — Gemma Halliday

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real. — Gemma Arterton

Gemma, I'm not going to hurt you." His voice is as smooth as silk as he winds around the bed, his radiant, green eyes fixed on me. "I promise I won't hurt you. Everything's okay."
I laugh sharply as I put weight on my weak legs. "That's the biggest lie I've ever heard come out of your mouth, which says a lot since you're the biggest liar I've ever met. — Jessica Sorensen

Gemma was so determined for me to deal with my PTSD, but I thought I was doing pretty well with it. We were friends now. I had my incontinence under control — Darynda Jones

I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world. — Gemma Ward

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them ... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them. — Gemma Arterton

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. — Libba Bray

Liquid heat blasts into me and I can feel it all the way to my navel, feeling him so deep inside me it's almost like he's poking at my heart. He — Gemma Rice

The woman had the IQ of a squash. — Gemma Halliday

She was the best friend he'd ever had, and he'd tried to resist messing it up, tried not to feel anything else for her, but it was inevitable. He was meant to love Gemma Carlson. — Codi Gary

It amazed Chess how he'd really believed, almost all along, that there was nothing he'd miss, leaving this world. Only the whole of it, you ass-stupid fool.

Every bit, the living and the dead, and then some; hot sun on his back, the wind and the rain, full-out galloping into battle, feel of his guns in hand, a good hard fuck. Getting drunk - on absinthe, anger, blood. Stomping twice on some enemy's face for good measure, and laughing while he did it; the sound of Asher Rook's voice preaching, or Yancey's, singing. Ed's heartbeat under his cheek. — Gemma Files

My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all. — Gemma Arterton

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different. — Gemma Arterton

no matter it's actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsule, becoming a static window into a particular moment of a particular era. Even period pieces tell you more about the times they were made in than the times they depict — Gemma Files

His eyes darken and his voice drops to a firm, husky tone.I can always tie you to the bed and make it so you can't go anywhere. — Jessica Sorensen

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you. — Libba Bray

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

I never really cared about what I looked like. — Gemma Ward

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

Your chest is surprisingly hairy.'
'I hope I can't say the same thing about you. — Gemma Burgess

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth! — Gemma Halliday

He IS just a normal boy. — Molly Looby

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle - clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake. — Gemma Ward

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give. — Lucy Christopher

Poor little lambs,' says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can't be named." Pastel Orphans — Gemma Liviero

I'm going to call me girls." Sadie stood in the open doorway and yelled. "Clare, Dora, I want yiz!" The cry went up, repeated over and over again as the children playing in the street outside passed the message along. Sadie waited, sure the message would eventually reach her two girls, where ever they were playing. It was an efficient message system used by every mother around the place. — Gemma Jackson

Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.

One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.

One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength. — Gemma B. Benton

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours. — Libba Bray

There's a part of you, Gemma, that's so fucking sweet, and I want to steal that part of you, even though I know I shouldn't. — Ella Frank

None of us know what will make you happy. That is a question you have to ask yourself. But what I can tell you for certain is that you will have to ask yourself and get to a place where the sound of your voice is the clearest voice in the room. — Gemma B. Benton

Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell. — Kimberley Nixon

Yeah, well, maybe magic's like that. Metaphor made real. — Gemma Files

The French have the perfect word for it: 'flaneur'. It means to stroll around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and your surroundings. Baudelaire defined a flaneur as 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'. — Gemma Burgess

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

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. — Gemma Chan

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

I'll go," he said.
"And that's safer because?"
"I'm a guy."
"Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how? — Gemma Halliday

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. — Amy Tan

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

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray

away, forcing myself to run faster. "Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through — Jessica Sorensen

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough. — Libba Bray

I could see where the faded ink intersected with its surface, half-absorbed but half not, rendering part of every word a mere whisper, the shadow left behind when all its thicker parts had rotted away. — Gemma Files

I will always want to earn what I get, however much it hurts; that I want it because it hurts, because pain gives life a pain, and without it life isn't even death, just . . . nothingness. — Gemma Files

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

She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie. — Gemma Halliday

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