Gail Giles Quotes

You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122) ~ Gail Giles

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid. ~ Gail Giles

I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement. ~ Gail Giles

A thief, stealing his friendship. ~ Gail Giles

I liked my zone small, and I didn't want visitors. ~ Gail Giles

You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276) ~ Gail Giles

Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted. ~ Gail Giles

There was no relaxing when you lived a secret. ~ Gail Giles

With the sound of waves outside, the bed seemed like our own Guld and we were swimmers. Front to front, out bodies slicked with sweat, each swimming and stroking, one against the other. We rode the waves to the crests, then plummeted down, only to ride the wave to the next breaker. We swam against the current that threatened to pull us under. ~ Gail Giles

I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277) ~ Gail Giles

We were random stars, and he made us a constellation. ~ Gail Giles

I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. ~ Gail Giles

Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere. ~ Gail Giles

Why make waves if you don't know how to surf? ~ Gail Giles

When you wade, you're kind of bogged down. You can't walk, or run; you're not swimming; you're kind of fighting the water all the time. ~ Gail Giles

These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment ~ Gail Giles

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself. ~ Giles Foden

The important part is to get all of this information out of your head and listed somewhere. ~ Giles Johnston

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare. ~ Gail Caldwell

You can have everything you want. All you need is a plan. And how do we spell plan? B-U-D-G-E-T! ~ Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Fate and the roads that get placed in front of us. It's like one huge puzzle that ultimately fits in the end. ~ Gail McHugh

There are no wrongs just write. ~ Beverly Gail Bernett

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable. ~ Gail Carriger

The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face. ~ Gail Dines

Janey was planning a short engagement, she'd simpered, and so, of course, the inevitable collection for the wedding present would soon follow. Of all the compulsory financial contributions, that is the one that irks me most. Two people wander around John Lewis picking out lovely items for themselves, and then they make other people pay for them. It's bare-faced effrontery. They choose things like plates, bowls and cutlery-I mean, what are they doing at the moment: shoveling food from packets into their mouths with their bare hands? I simply fail to see how the act of legally formalizing a human relationship necessitates friends, family and coworkers upgrading the contents of their kitchen for them. ~ Gail Honeyman

Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot. ~ Johnny Giles

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. ~ Giles Foden

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay. ~ Gail Collins

Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future. ~ Gail Lumet Buckley

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely. ~ Gail Carson Levine

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. ~ Gail Carriger

Can't you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don't grow that beautiful. Not outside of Denmark, anyway. ~ Gail Carriger

Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn't erase it. ~ Gail Honeyman

I don't even know how to thank you, Gavin. You've accepted me with every fragile weakness I have, loving me no less than a woman without faults. A woman without fears. Every look, touch, and kiss you've given without judgment of any kind. You've healed every exposed wound, old scar, and piece of pain I brought into this relationship without expecting anything in return. You've shown me what a racing heart feels like, shown me mere thoughts could easily cease with a single kiss. You've shown me what it is to feel truly, wholeheartedly, until the end of time loved. How do I thank you for all of this? ~ Gail McHugh

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. ~ Lamar Giles

I didn't make you do it. The devil didn't either. It's all you, Panda. ~ Lamar Giles

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.' ~ Gail Devers

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty. ~ Gail Sheehy

An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner. ~ Gail Collins

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day. ~ Gail Carson Levine

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories. ~ Gail Simmons

Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding. ~ Gail Carriger

Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable. ~ Gail Jones

Yet they are unmoved when told of the cruel blow that fortune has dealt them, happy to see out their days on this unknown and unspoiled atoll. They will tell you that the view from their windows is infinitely more magnificent than Manhattan's glittering skyline. ~ Giles Milton

No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have to fix it by changing the way you see yourself. You have to choose to see yourself accurately, to see life as a classroom, and commit to the policy that you have the same value no matter how you perform. It is time to claim the power to do this and not let anyone take your self-esteem from you again. ~ Kimberly Giles

In all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inkling of this wish. unburdened by the demands of history or anyone else's dreams, i had wandered toward and finally reached a world far outside the plains i loved and loathed. my mother had neither begrudged me this journey nor expected it, certain that i had to make my own way. but she packed my toolbox with her great wit and forbearance before i went, and she stashed there, for long safekeeping, her desire. ~ Gail Caldwell

I want to be with you forever and beyond... ~ Gail Carson Levine

She'd had it painted, and planted, and primped, and festooned, and draped to within an inch of its very long life. But it was asking too much of the poor thing. The result was something akin to dressing a bulldog up like an opera dancer. Underneath the tulle, it was still a bowlegged bulldog. ~ Gail Carriger

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out. ~ Gail Simmons

Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation. ~ Gail Carriger

Even now, you think only in terms of the game. You are well chosen, little bird. Or are you a stoat?" Madame Spetuna bent forward, looking even harder at Sophronia's palms. She was close enough for Sophronia to feel the woman's breath on her skin. "Give your heart wisely." She paused a long time over one particular wrinkle. "Oh, child, you will end the world as we know it." Madame Spetuna swallowed and then turned Sophronia's hands over and placed them, palm down, on the table. She leaned forward, pressing them into the tablecloth as though she might rub out what she had seen. ~ Gail Carriger

Fear causes problems in your life because it fogs the lens through which you see yourself and your world. ~ Kimberly Giles

Rue gave a little mental sigh. No one would ever describe her as deadly attractive. She brightened a bit. Perhaps she could aspire to just deadly? ~ Gail Carriger

There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks. ~ Gail Collins

When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. ~ Giles Andreae

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. ~ Gail Carson Levine

I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux) ~ Gail Carriger

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. ~ Gail Carson Levine

At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance. ~ Gail Simmons

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. ~ Gail Parent

Your father, madam, was fully cremated. I made absolutely certain."
Alexia swallowed silently and then said fervently, "Thank you, Floote. ~ Gail Carriger

Stupid little boys should learn to use guns and not wave them around. ~ Gail Carriger