Gemma Malley Quotes

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.

But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were.

All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.

The true scientist lets truth emerge.

Life is a changeable thing.

It doesn't feel dangerous, it feels exciting, even though they're probably the same thing.

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to us: people with views that contradict ours, societies that are run along very different lines.

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.

When you are weak, attack-it is the best defence.

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.

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

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.

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person's needs before your own.

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.

Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.

Because man still feared death, feared disappearing into nothingness, feared how death made each life insignificant.

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?

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.

Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it?

The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.

HELPING ME You think mr think I was infertile having to tell Anna she ... that she..

Invention is not always good. Sometimes our inventions are too powerful for us to control.

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.

But was falling such a bad thing, she wondered. Was it, perhaps better to see the top of the mountain, even if only for a moment, than never to even try? Or was it that the higher you allow yourself to climb, the further you have to come crashing down to earth?

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.

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.

The truth was that she'd never realised how absorbing it could be to write.

You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.

We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.

Surplus meant unnecessary. Not required.
You couldn't be a Surplus if you were needed by someone else. You couldn't be a Surplus if you were loved.

Imagination shows an ability to lie, to pretend the world is different than it is.

Sometimes her curiosity got the better of her and she found herself furtively asking questions about his life before Grange Hall, pretending as she did so that she wasn't really that interested. The truth was that Peter was a window through which Anna could glimpse the world outside, and the temptation to keep looking was quite overwhelming.

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.

They let you down, you let them down, then they're your best friend, until next time.