Top 100 Gemma Quotes
#1. Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way?
Kartik~What way?
Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit?
Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.
Libba Bray
#2. I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#3. Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?
Wendelin Van Draanen
#4. And you think that's going to work?" Dink, dink, dink, dink. "Oh, shut up." Gemma turned and went into the bathroom as he tried not to gloat.
"What?" Dink. "I didn't say a thing." Dink. And with that, he failed to not gloat.
Kathleen Brooks
#5. away, forcing myself to run faster. "Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through
Jessica Sorensen
#6. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
Melvin Burgess
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
Libba Bray
#10. Gemma." He shakes his head. "This is happening between us.
Julie Johnson
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.
-Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Libba Bray
#14. Your body is begging for me to fuck it, Gemma, and I think your mind is too."
I can't help myself from responding. "I think you're already doing that."
"What?" he quietly demands.
"Fucking with my mind.
Ella Frank
#15. Gemma," I said, adding a singsong whine to my voice, "now I can't scare her. You can't go around telling people about me.
Darynda Jones
#16. There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.
Libba Bray
#17. 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
#18. I know. And I'm Sorry. People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on. I'm offering you a new world.
Libba Bray
#19. All I could think about was Gemma kissing Liam, Liam kissing Gemma - and wondering why that image made my insides knot up.
Barbara Dee
#20. This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.
Libba Bray
#21. Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
Luke Evans
#22. Gemma told me that women like being courted, so please read the following reasons that you should marry me. (I only included five. I didn't want to overwhelm you.) And yes, I realize this isn't a traditional courtship. It'll work anyway; I'm irresistible.
Elizabeth Hunter
#23. I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
Libba Bray
#24. Once upon a time," Gemma began, the older two girls whispering the opening with her, "which is all times and no times but not the very best of times,there was a castle. And in it lived a king who wanted nothing more in the world than a child.
Jane Yolen
#25. I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"I'm sorry that I didn't trust you. I'm sorry I doubted your intentions."
"I think you're sorry you got caught. Oh, and, Gemma? You should always doubt my intentions.
Ella Frank
#26. So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.
Joely Richardson
#27. Gemma walked up behind her and did the crazy sign, which since she was a psychiatrist seemed very unprofessional.
Darynda Jones
#28. I'll never give up. Gemma is my soul mate, my other half, the only girl Ive ever loved. Weve been through hell together. Hell, weve died and then came back to life because of our love
Jessica Sorensen
#29. 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
#30. Great thinking Gemma. Way to set yourself up for a cold death. Didn't your dreams teach you anything?
Jessica Sorensen
#31. 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
#32. When I fuck you, Gemma, I want your eyes open, looking right at me. I've never hidden who I am from anyone I've touched, and I won't start with you.
Ella Frank
#33. Gemma shrugged. "It seems you have only yourself to blame for that misunderstanding.
K.M. Shea
#34. Charley's "FOR THE LOVE OF":
"Oh,FOR THE LOVE OF gravy"
"Just be honest with me, FOR THE LOVE OF applesauce, Gemma."
"But FOR THE LOVE OF marinara, I typed, don't shoot anyone.
Darynda Jones
#35. Oh, nothing," Gemma replied, still wrapped around Andy. "I was just discussing my own possible bathroom-related demise." "Ew," said Walter. "Do that in someone else's bathroom. You girls are disgusting enough as it is without leaving corpses.
Mary O'Reilly
#36. Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through the night. It was the same voice that always showed up right before the monsters captured me. "No matter what you do, you'll never escape.
Jessica Sorensen
#37. I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.
Gary Numan
#38. 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
#39. As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'
Gemma Chan
#40. 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
#41. Nope. I'm just going to a bookstore,' Gemma replied. 'How dangerous could that be?
Amanda Hocking
#42. Would it be nice to look like Gemma Ward? Sure. But I have an incredible brain and the ability to write, and I make people laugh pretty much every day. I wouldn't give that up for anything. Those are the things I've learned to value.
Rosie Waterland
#43. Welcome to finishing school, Gemma. Learn to embroider, serve tea, curtsy. Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof.
Libba Bray
#44. 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
#45. A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.
Gemma Cairney
#46. Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.
Gemma Halliday
#47. Can You see that as soon as the day breaks I think of You? As evening comes, I am near You. I am near You at every moment. I love You, Jesus!
Gemma Galgani
#48. 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
#49. At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
Gemma Chan
#50. She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
Libba Bray
#51. Being a ghost is like being invisible, so being invisible must be like being a ghost. Like being inside the shadow, always blundering towards people with your hands out, angry that can't see to comfort you.
Gemma Files
#52. Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
Libba Bray
#53. My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
Gemma Arterton
#54. The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.
Gemma Malley
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
Gemma Arterton
#58. As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
Gemma Ward
#59. Yeah, well, maybe magic's like that. Metaphor made real.
Gemma Files
#60. I know I'm not the woman he so obviously hungers for and even though I'm not who he wants, I find myself stupidly willing to be her substitute.
Ella Frank
#61. We kissed, and sparks went off in my chest. At the end of the night he said, 'I know what you're thinking. You're wondering if I'll call tomorrow. I'll do better than that.' He called me the minute I got home and we talked till I fell asleep. I was smitten.
Gemma Burgess
#63. Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.
Gemma Malley
#64. Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?'
'Really? How adorable of me.
Gemma Burgess
#65. It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.
Gemma Arterton
#67. The first thing I did was run. Okay, actually the first thing I did was scream, lose my balance, flail my arms in the air like some kind of uncoordinated bird, then slide down the side of the tree and land on my butt.
Then I ran.
Gemma Halliday
#68. They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.
Gemma Burgess
#69. As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon
Gemma Jackson
#70. The day Chess Pargeter looks t' engage himself with any woman's situation'll be a cold one in the Hot Place for sure
Gemma Files
#71. Funny how men call it being free and women call it being alone, isn't it?
Gemma Burgess
#72. Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.
Gemma Arterton
#73. I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
Gemma Arterton
#74. 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
#75. Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.
Gemma Burgess
#76. 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
#77. I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back in ... like: "OK now, shut up!"
Gemma Arterton
#78. While it wasn't a total given that all members of the Color Guard also belonged to the Chastity Club, twirling flags was considered one of the most wholesome activities on campus, meaning the ratio of Chastity girls in Color Guard was something like that of Mormons in Utah.
Gemma Halliday
#79. 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
#80. There are three things you never want to find in your boyfriend's locker: a sweaty jockstrap, a D minus on last week's history test, and an empty condom wrapper.
Lucky me, I'd hit the trifecta.
Gemma Halliday
#81. I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.
Gemma Galgani
#82. I'm struck with the realization that I'm holding onto a man who, for now, is holding onto me but he has still not let go of her.
Ella Frank
#83. I think that this place can strip a person of human traits. It can make one desire nothing and hope for even less.
Gemma Liviero
#84. He taught me not to dwell or attach myself to things from the past that were no longer useful, and that sentimentality was for people who did not want to move forward in this world.
Gemma Liviero
#86. Connor Crane was currently the secret crush of half the female HHH population. And a couple of the males, too.
Gemma Halliday
#87. I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.
Gemma Arterton
#88. 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
#90. When the witness is ready, the ghost will appear. When things wear thin.
Gemma Files
#91. We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.
Gemma Malley
#92. I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
Gemma Ward
#93. Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
Gemma Malley
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#99. But you're a man, Chess. You're tough."
Chess snorted. "Ever seen the inside of a birthin' room? Stick a pin in the map almost anywhere, you'll find ten women tougher'n me - and you, for that matter.
Gemma Files
#100. Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.
Gemma Malley
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