Gayle Friesen Quotes

Don't you think...doesn't it seem sometimes like life is like a plane?...And we're all piloos, you know, of our own planes. When things are going smoothly then we're, like, on autopilot, but sometimes things get a little, well, turbulent and then we have to land the plane on our own..."What about the air traffic control?"...Well, sure. Sometimes the guy is helpful, but maybe he's drunk?...Or maybe there's this big fog so you just put your hands on the controls and look for the runway lights and do your best. On your own. ~ Gayle Friesen

One never forgets, of course not. The events of a person's life become a part of who they are. It would be like forgetting the sound of your own beating heart. ~ Gayle Friesen

First rule of a good shrink is probably to pay attention to the whining. ~ Gayle Friesen

When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last ~ Gayle Forman

She'll always carry that scar."
"She will, only if you do. ~ Gayle Forman

Wait, you want me to ride the bike?"
He nods.
"And you'll what? Run alongside me?"
"No. I'll ride you." His eyebrows shoot up, and I feel myself blush. "On the bike," he clarifies ~ Gayle Forman

I felt the heat flood my neck and I could sense myself blushing. I stared at my shoes. I knew that Adam was looking at me now with as much certainty as I knew that if I looked up he was going to kiss me. And it took me by surprise how much I wanted to be kissed by him, to realize that I'd thought about it so often that I'd memorized the exact shape of his lips, that I'd imagined running my finger down the cleft of his chin. My eyes flickered upward. Adam was there waiting for me. That was how it started. ~ Gayle Forman

And you will never know how it feels to light up the sky. You will never know how it feels to be a firefly, ~ Gayle Forman

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush ~ Gayle Forman

That's when I figured out the ugly secret of a mother's love: you protect them to protect yourself. ~ Gayle Forman

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one - and had no
idea what to do with it?
I'm that dog. ~ Gayle Forman

It was one of those simple facts of life: the sky was blue, gravity kept our feet firmly on the ground, and I loved Katie Weber." ~ Jamie ~ Catherine Gayle

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one. ~ Gayle Forman

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible. ~ Gayle Forman

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The rain keeps up throughout the next day. "Lovely English summer we're having," everyone jokes. ~ Gayle Forman

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. ~ Helene D. Gayle

Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard the first note of R&B artist Chrisette Michele's debut CD, I was blown away. Her voice is playful but pretty, light but strong - the woman's got soul. ~ Gayle King

But then one time, you track down an email address and you're near a computer with Internet access so you don't have that nice cushion and you type what you're feeling and press send before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it. And then you wait, and wait, and wait, and nothing comes back, so all those things you thought were so important to say, really, they weren't. They weren't worth saying at all. ~ Gayle Forman

She was raw. This is why she hurt most of her life. If she was mad, you'd know it. If she was happy, you'd know it. If she was sad, you'd know it. She lived life without hypocrisy. She saw people for themselves, not the cost of the fabric on their back or the size of their diamond or how much money they had in their bank accounts or what model of car they drove. It was black or white. You were bad or good. You were bad if you lied and stole. You were good if you told the truth and worked for your needs and desires. Simple as that. Regardless of peoples' baggage, if they were good, she could see it. She believed in the goodness of people because she came from a place of honesty and godliness. ~ Susan Gayle

That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
it is. ~ Gayle Forman

Sometimes the best way to find out what you're supposed to do is by doing the thing you're not supposed to do. ~ Gayle Forman

And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now. ~ Gayle Forman

The truth is for those that seek it! ~ Gayle Nix Jackson

When you're on the road, there is always the promise of the next stop being better than last ~ Gayle Forman

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close.
Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough. ~ Gayle Forman

Anything can happen in one day. ~ Gayle Forman

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below.. ~ Jonathan Friesen

Allyson sees Willem's face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only. ~ Gayle Forman

In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades. ~ Gayle Lynds