Gabrielle Quotes

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it's hard to tell. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I am love. Everything in me and outside of me is love. Today I choose to repeat this, believe this, and commit to this. I am love. Anything else I have chosen to believe is false evidence appearing real. What I choose to see as real today is love and only love. I am love ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Daddy once said, If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around. ~ Gabrielle Dennis

Gabrielle Union is my best friend. ~ Hill Harper

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Making a beautiful, happy home is not about what we don't have or what we want to buy. It's all about what we do have, and how incredibly precious it all is. It's about how we spend the days we're given with this family of ours, and making the home we share a place our kids will love to describe to our grandchildren. It's about making our kids' memories delightful. ~ Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. ~ Gabrielle Union

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing. ~ Gabrielle Roth

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Candlelight flickered in the adjacent bedroom. She followed the ambient warmth to the threshold and paused there, marveling at what she saw. Lucan's austere bedroom had been transformed into something out of a dream. Four tall black pillar candles set into intricate silver sconces burned in each corner. Red silk draped the bed. On the floor before the fireplace was a cushioned next of fluffy pillows and even more crimson silk. It looked so romantic, so inviting.
A room intended for lovemaking.
She took a step farther inside. Behind her, the door closed softly on its own.
No, not quite on its own. Lucan was there, standing on the other side of the room, watching her. His hair was damp from a shower. He wore a loosely tied, satiny red robe that skated around his bare calves, and there was a heated look in his eyes that melted her where she stood.
"For you," he said, indicating the romantic setting. "For us tonight. I want things to be special for you."
Gabrielle was moved, instantly aroused by the sight of him, but she couldn't bear to make love the way things had been left between them.
"When I left tonight, I wasn't going to come back," she told him from the safety of distance. If she went any closer, she didn't think she'd have the strength to say what had to be said. "I can't do this anymore, Lucan. I need things from you that you can't give me."
"Name them." It was a soft command, but still a command. He moved toward her with careful ste ~ Lara Adrian

Reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs. ~ Gabrielle Giffords

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair. ~ Gabrielle Giffords

Showing up is what counts. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings. ~ Gabrielle Roy

In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled
they heal best left unwatched. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Does this mean you made a decision? (Carlos)
No, I took my clothes off and came in here to tell you I wasn't going to make love with you. To use your words, 'for someone so intelligent, you can be pretty dense.' (Gabrielle) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me. ~ Gabrielle Anwar

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby ~ Gabrielle Zevin

The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Bad luck," he commiserated. "Afraid I can't do that, either, Freddie, Dad's sending me to recon. That's food reconnaissance," he added to Lulu and Sophie. "There's a chef in a restaurant in Stoke Newington he wants me to check out before anyone else gets to him." He looked at Lulu. "Come with me," he said. From the corner of her eye, Lulu saw Sophie's hand snake to grab Charlie's wrist-- she avoided looking at Sophie's expression. "Don't you want to take your sites?" she asked coldly. ~ Gabrielle Donnelly

Elmo, a character A.J. has always despised because he seems too needy. "Elmo! ~ Gabrielle Zevin

The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth. ~ Gabrielle Tozer

-though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise ~ Gabrielle Burton

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think? ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling. ~ Gabrielle Tozer

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories. ~ Gabrielle Dennis

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss ... ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved. ~ Gabrielle Union

Why do we do so few when we can do so much? ~ Gabrielle Dubois

Don't be afraid of your own imagination. No matter what you write, there's always someone out there who will appreciate it. ~ B.A. Gabrielle

She knew her husband would never stray, so highly did he value that which he'd waited nearly six thousand years to know, so precious was it to him: love. She knew he would be there with her until the very end, that he would cherish each wrinkle, every line in her face, because in the final analysis they were not a negation of life but an affirmation of a life well lived. Proof positive of laughter and tears, of joy and grief, of passion, of living. ~ Karen Marie Moning

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend. ~ Gabrielle Dubois

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle! ~ B.A. Gabrielle

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. ~ Gabrielle Giffords

A.J. feels for the engagement ring in his pocket. Is this the moment? No, too Jumbotron. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

She takes out her phone and snaps a picture. "I like to take pictures of my drinks."
"They're like family," A.J. says.
"They're better than family. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success. ~ B.A. Gabrielle

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Um…" Simon started slowly "at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database of international criminals."
"Thatʼs the idea " Gabrielle said with a nod.
"And I feel compelled to remind you that weʼre international criminals " he finished but Kat was already smiling.
"Donʼt worry Simon. Itʼs not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the
Henley. ~ Ally Carter

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down. ~ Gabrielle Roy

If you would just listen to me . . . if you would just look at the pictures I took - "
"We've seen them, Miss Maxwell. Several times already. Frankly, nothing you've said tonight checks out - not your statement, and not these grainy, unreadable images from your cell phone."
"I'm sorry if the quality is lacking," Gabrielle replied, acidly. "The next time I'm witnessing a blood slaughter by a gang of psychos, I'll have to remember to bring my Leica and a few extra lenses. ~ Lara Adrian

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

To baby boomers wailing that the internet is turning innocent kids into vicious bullies - au contraire, we've been monsters all along. ~ Gabrielle Moss

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are. ~ Gabrielle Dennis

In my life, I have learned to accept personal responsibility for my circumstances and that acceptance has given me the power to change them."
~Elissa Gabrielle ~ Elissa Gabrielle

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Tell them, Gabrielle," Adam urged impatiently.
Blinking, Gabby nodded. "I have one of the, er… fairies here with me –"
"Tuatha Dé," Adam corrected irritably. "You're bloody well making me sound like Tinkerbell. ~ Karen Marie Moning

Can I be Sophie instead of Charlie?" she asked. "I've had lots more practice being her." "I'd rather you were you," he said in a tone that was very far from reassuring, but caused instead a positive flotilla of butterflies to swoop and circle down to the very pit of her stomach. ~ Gabrielle Donnelly

But imagine this, for a moment. If an asteroid happened to hit one of the rare remaining older surfaces; if its strike were glancing enough that it didn't pulverise the surface, but forceful enough that it ejected a chunk of rock with an escape velocity of 12,000 mph; if that chunk, flung out into space, wandered aimlessly for a million years or two before feeling the gravitational tug of a nearby planet; if it tore through the atmosphere of that planet in a blaze of glory and landed on one of the planet's frozen ice caps; if the chunk was buried in snow, squeezed, shoved and harried until it re-emerged, blinking, into the strangely blue daylight; and if, tens of thousands of years later a few local bipeds happened upon it, might it contain signs of alien life? If so, it would surely become one of the most exciting pieces of real estate in the entire Solar System. ~ Gabrielle Walker

I always bow to my enemies before I destroy them! ~ Gabrielle

Stop saying that! You sound absurd, and I don't even think you mean it. Besides, I'd never marry you," I told him. "I'm sixteen, and you're a slut, and you can't stop saying preposterous things!"
"True," he admitted. He kissed me on the lips and then I closed the door. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I won't say goodbye to you Xena, 'cause we'll be together again one day. ~ Gabrielle

What you believe, you receive. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Jesus, Gabrielle! Are you having a seizure?!"

"Please please please can I keep him mom? I promise I'll take care of him! Oh baby, I'll take care of him!"

"Good lord. She's finally gone around the bend. Can I have your Manolos when they come to take you away? ~ N.M. Silber

But that's the problem with causing offense, isn't it? You don't always know when you do. ~ Gabrielle Donnelly

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees. ~ Gabrielle Hamilton

We sense love, but we don't believe in it. We save our faith for fear. But ultimately, there is a quiet voice in each of us that longs for something better. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I want to hear your moans while I fuck you relentlessly. God, Gabrielle, I'm going to fuck your sweet cunt so hard you won't be able to move without thinking of me. ~ Lena Black

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful! ~ Gabrielle Dubois

Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.' ~ Gabrielle Roth

I think most places can be interesting to live in if you find a way to make them so. ~ Gabrielle Donnelly

Liberation is a beautiful thing when embarking on the glorious moment when the truth about someone is revealed to you, in bold and vibrant color and you have the courage, with wide-open eyes to see reality more vividly, and the wisdom to act accordingly. ~ Elissa Gabrielle

But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Maya has chosen to be ring bearer because the job has more responsibility than flower girl. "If you lose a flower, you get another flower," Maya reasons. "If you lose the ring, everyone is sad forever. The ring bearer has much more power."
"You sound like Gollum," A.J. says.
"Who's Gollum?" Maya wants to know.
"Someone very nerdy that your father likes," Amelia says. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much more exciting as a fan to me to watch the show as it's happening. ~ Gabrielle Dennis

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer ~ Gabrielle Roth

Your world is only as small as you make it. ~ Gabrielle Union

When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists. ~ Gabrielle Aplin

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You have found your destiny, Gabrielle. Just like I said you would. I never told you it would be with me. ~ Lucan ~ Lara Adrian

It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first. ~ Gabrielle

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. "So he's been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to pleasure - "
"Every nook and cranny," Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty laugh. ~ Michelle O'Leary

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I never take out clients. It's bad policy. He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg. ~ Gabrielle Black

I witness that I'm out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French. ~ Matthea Harvey

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

So many times in life we're faced with a choice: when a task becomes super difficult, will we flip out and quit, or will we stay focused and keep fighting?". "With strong faith in God and some serious determination, every dream is possible - especially if your mama refuses to let you fly home, fry chicken, and give up ~ Gabrielle Douglas

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

You move your kids to this all-white community and force them to go to these all-white schools. You think you've priced yourself out of this shit. You've done all these things and then this happens. ~ Gabrielle Union

Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao."
"I wouldn't say love, Theo."
"No, you speak the truth. Love isn't right. It isn't right for me either. Sometimes I hate cacao." Theo looked at me. "You don't love Balanchine chocolate. You are Balanchine chocolate. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best. ~ Gabrielle Reece

The whorl of her stars. ~ Gabrielle Harbowy

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done. ~ Gabrielle Reece