Gabby Bess Quotes

#1. In vanity there is a certain confidence and self-assurance that is unattractive in a young girl and is met with every attempt to be suppressed immediately.

Gabby Bess

#2. I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare

#3. That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

David Hume

#4. Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
[Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Horace

#5. I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.

Miranda Hart

#6. I am on three different mood stabilizers so I don't think I experience a full range of emotions anymore. I feel abstractly dissatisfied with my life but mostly detached.

Gabby Bess

#7. You're God?" he says. "A piece of the pie, yes. You look disappointed. Turn that around, multiply it by a million, and you'll know how I feel about you people.

Richard Kadrey

#8. Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor

Gabby Bess

#9. My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.

Dan Quayle

#10. I close my eyes to the ability
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all.

Gabby Bess

#11. I wouldn't be a good wife, but I would be a wife in a way that was cinematically compelling.

Gabby Bess

#12. You lose the balance of your sould if you not learn to take care of yourself.

John O'Donohue

#13. Whatever is going to kill me will kill me and it will be mine.

Gabby Bess

#14. Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

Alva Myrdal

#15. It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage.
[Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne ...
Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Horace

#16. Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

Gabby Bess

#17. A human brain is encased in a skull and each human exists in separete body so it seems like there is always going to be a feeling of disconnect. One human being will never completely understand what another human is thinking or feeling

Gabby Bess

#18. We don't know those bones but I know what it feels like to know a dead girl. Her text messages are in my phone. I don't look at them but I keep them there. It seems fucked up to delete a dead girl's texts. It seems pointless. She is already gone.

Gabby Bess

#19. She imagined the universe as a giant sad thing
that consistently felt alienated by itself because it was too large and too sad for anyone
to possibly understand it. Jane felt bad for the universe.
Maybe the universe needed her friends more than she did.

Gabby Bess

#20. The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

Russell Brand

#21. Why does everything eventually become terrible?

Gabby Bess

#22. Juliana imagined her funeral: a formless crowd of people in a trivial location, chatting amongst themselves, saying things like, "Oh thank God. Finally.

Gabby Bess

#23. Juliana behaved as if she was performing for an unknown, ever-present viewer

Gabby Bess

#24. A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

Evan Esar