Nikki Gemmell Quotes

#1. I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#2. Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.

David Levithan

#3. Did you run any of this by Curran?"
"I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way."
"I don't understand your relationship.

Ilona Andrews

#4. Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

Nikki Gemmell

#5. You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.

Nikki Gemmell

#6. Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

Nikki Gemmell

#7. An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife

Nikki Gemmell

#8. I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.

Francesca Woodman

#9. But when I catch my expression in my floor-length mirror, a dark scowl tightens my facial muscles. It's my normal look, unforturnately. I have RBF (resting bitch face). It's one-hundred percent real.

Krista Ritchie

#10. Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.

Nikki Gemmell

#11. She can't catch on to slumber, the relief of oblivion.

Nikki Gemmell

#12. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.

Patrick Ness

#13. Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self ... You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

Nikki Gemmell

#14. There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

George William Russell

#15. And I am in love with light. Lock me in the sunshine.

Nikki Gemmell

#16. We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Voltaire

#17. You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much.

Nikki Gemmell

#18. I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

Candice Accola

#19. People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

Nikki Gemmell

#20. [He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.

Nikki Gemmell

#21. So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.

Nikki Gemmell

#22. Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

Nikki Gemmell

#23. You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

Nikki Gemmell