Gwendoline Riley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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

#6. 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.

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#7. I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as.

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#8. 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.

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#9. He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.

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#10. Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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 ...

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

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#14. I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

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#15. It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

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#16. 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