Top 100 Gemma Quotes
#1. A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.
Gemma Cairney
#2. 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
#3. Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.
Gemma Halliday
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
Libba Bray
#10. My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
Gemma Arterton
#11. The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.
Gemma Malley
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.
Gemma Arterton
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Yeah, well, maybe magic's like that. Metaphor made real.
Gemma Files
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.
Gemma Malley
#23. 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
#24. Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?'
'Really? How adorable of me.
Gemma Burgess
#25. It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.
Gemma Arterton
#27. away, forcing myself to run faster. "Gemma, there's no use running." The man's voice rumbled through
Jessica Sorensen
#28. 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
#29. They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere.
Gemma Burgess
#30. As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon
Gemma Jackson
#31. 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
#32. Funny how men call it being free and women call it being alone, isn't it?
Gemma Burgess
#33. Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.
Gemma Arterton
#34. 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
#35. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
Melvin Burgess
#36. 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
#37. Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship.
Gemma Burgess
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#49. Connor Crane was currently the secret crush of half the female HHH population. And a couple of the males, too.
Gemma Halliday
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. 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
#54. When the witness is ready, the ghost will appear. When things wear thin.
Gemma Files
#55. We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.
Gemma Malley
#56. 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
#57. Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
Gemma Malley
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.
Gemma Malley
#66. The truth was that she'd never realised how absorbing it could be to write.
Gemma Malley
#68. Gemma." He shakes his head. "This is happening between us.
Julie Johnson
#69. Churchill had a black dog. I have singledom,' she says, exhaling theatrically. 'I will die alone.
Gemma Burgess
#70. My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.
Gemma Arterton
#71. 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
#72. It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
Gemma Ward
#73. There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood
Gemma Galgani
#74. Plum smiles, sighs, and shakes her head. 'No. You know, I thought Dan was a good guy. Maybe there are no good guys left.
Gemma Burgess
#75. But it was a restless sleep, and throughout the night her dreams were filled with crying children, a woman screaming and a little butterfly, trapped in a cold, grey prison.
Gemma Malley
#76. 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
#77. I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.
Gemma Files
#78. Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person's needs before your own.
Gemma Malley
#79. 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
#80. Long life, short life-did it matter when each day was the same, when humans were incapable of living for the moment because of their fundamental need for order, for the comfort of everyday routine.
Gemma Malley
#81. That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.
Gemma Burgess
#82. When you are weak, attack-it is the best defence.
Gemma Malley
#83. It doesn't feel dangerous, it feels exciting, even though they're probably the same thing.
Gemma Malley
#84. You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.
Lucy Christopher
#86. The central question of any execution: do you want the hood on or off? Would you rather see it coming? Or would you rather simply drift away, cocooned in warm darkness, stinking of nothing but yourself? A kind, familiar place to hide in, just before the snap, the crackle? Or the pop?
Gemma Files
#87. stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we know is nothing.
Gemma Files
#88. It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.
Gemma Arterton
#89. All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.
Gemma Malley
#90. You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.
Gemma Malley
#91. I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick.
-Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Libba Bray
#93. There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.
Gemma Arterton
#94. I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.
Gemma Arterton
#95. 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
#96. Usually she loved to learn new words, treating them as exciting possessions that she could employ as she chose-in her journal, in her conversation-relishing the newness and beauty of each one.
Gemma Malley
#97. She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!
Gemma Halliday
#98. I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
Gemma Arterton
#99. You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.
Gemma Malley
#100. Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.
Gemma Malley
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