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I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he's charming and loving in his way. But he's selfish. He's a limited man determined to bring about his own end-"
"But-"
Tom grabs both my hands in his and gives them a small squeeze. "Gemma, you can't save him. Why can't you accept that?"
I see my reflection on the surface of the Thames. My face is a watery outline, all blurred edges with nothing settled.
"Because if I let go of that" - I swallow hard, once, twice - "then I have to accept that I am alone."
The ship's horn howls again as it slips out toward sea. Tom's reflection appears beside mine, just as uncertain.
"We're every one of us alone in this world, Gemma." He doesn't say it bitterly. "But you have company, if you want. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Could you look again, please?" the woman asked in a clipped, slightly British accent. "It was sent parcel post two weeks ago from Miss Felicity Worthington and addressed to Mrs. Rao, Mrs. Gemma Doyle Rao. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I change the world, the world changes me. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty."
"If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?"
"Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.
A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. ~ Amy Tan
Gemma Doyle quotes by Amy Tan
Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
What do you feel? I've never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren't supposed to feel. We're British. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
But ... you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
It isn't the bloody weather!"
I've shocked them into silence. I should stop. Apologize for my outburst. Make amends. Blame the climate. But I cannot. Something in me has given way and it cannot be put back again. "Did you know that he had returned to the laudanum? That he couldn't give it up? That our good intentions were not nearly so powerful as his will to die? ... No, Thomas. Is this the life you want for me? To be like you? To wear blinders and talk of nothing that matters and drink weak tea with other people who would do anything to hide the truth, especially from themselves? ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridiculous organization. From now on, I shall do exactly as I wish and you cannot stop me. Do not follow. Do not watch. Do not even attempt to contact me or you'll be sorry indeed. Do you understand? ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.
God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. ~ Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle quotes by Libba Bray
I suppose I shall have to compound a felony, as usual. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
With a keen eye for details, on truth prevails. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
A woman becomes a responsible parent when she stops being an obedient daughter. ~ Glennon Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Glennon Doyle
Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way ... ~ Gemma Arterton
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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.
~ Gemma Malley
Gemma Doyle quotes by Gemma Malley
It is hardest to kill the man who has the most to live for.' He took a pretend shot. 'The empty, the soulless, the hate-filled enemies drop like flies. Those who love, and love hard, are the ones left standing. ~ Catherine Doyle
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I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Thomas's were the same, but the dirt from waste didn't beat the rot he felt in his soul. ~ Gemma Farrow
Gemma Doyle quotes by Gemma Farrow
If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing - a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
That the full facts have never been revealed to the general ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Anything else?" "He was a man of untidy habits - very untidy and careless. He was left with ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.' ~ Gemma Arterton
Gemma Doyle quotes by Gemma Arterton
There are all kinds of things that can scare you every day. What if someone you know gets cancer? What if something happens to you sister or your friends or your parents? And what if you get hit by a car crossing the street or the kids at school find out what an unnatural freak you are and what if you go too far out in the lake and the water is over your head and what if there's a fire or a war?
And you can lie awake at night and worry about these things because it's scary and unpredictable, but it's REAL. It's possible.
-Mackie Doyle, The Replacement ~ Brenna Yovanoff
Gemma Doyle quotes by Brenna Yovanoff
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government. ~ Jim Doyle
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Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. It appeared to be omniscient and omnipotent, and yet was neither seen nor heard. The man who held out against the Church vanished away, and none knew whither he had gone or what
had befallen him. His wife and his children awaited him at home, but no father ever returned to tell them how he had fared at the hands of his secret judges. A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them. No wonder that men went about in fear and trembling, and that even in the heart of the wilderness they dared not whisper the doubts which oppressed them. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Maybe my reliance on numbing is keeping me from the two things I was born for: learning and loving. I could go on hitting easy buttons until I die and feel no pain, but the cost of that decision could be that I'll never learn, love, or be truly alive. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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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. ~ Gemma Malley
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It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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All right, Watson. Don't look so scared," he muttered in a very weak voice. "It's not as bad as it seems."
"Thank God for that!"
"I'm a bit of a single-stick expert, as you know. I took most of them on my guard. It was the second man that was too much for me."
"What can I do, Holmes? Of course, it was that damned fellow who set them on. I'll go and thrash the hide off him if you give the word."
"Good old Watson!( ... ) ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard. ~ Glennon Doyle Melton
Gemma Doyle quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Would you think me impertinent if I were to put your theories to a more severe test?" "On the contrary," he answered, "it would prevent me from taking a second dose of cocaine. I ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great! ~ Shawn Doyle
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Men who will lead you into trouble will seldom stand by you to get you out of it. ~ John Doyle Lee
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driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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But sometimes I do wonder if I'm love-blind the way some people are colour-blind, or most people are ghost-blind. If love (true or false, thick or thin, requited or un-) really is the only glue ever mortars our sad hearts' bricks together, and me not swift enough to recognize the label any time I happened to pass it by.
Because: living is transience, after all--people aren't really permanent 'til they're dead, no matter what you might've felt for 'em beforehand. Always changing... ~ Gemma Files
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Are they not fresh and beautiful?" [Watson] cried ...
Holmes shook his head gravely.
" ... You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed bu their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed here ... They always filled me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson ... that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beauty of the countryside ... But the reason is obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was expecting a rather long visit to Bankruptcy Court at the time, and this interruption seemed almost providential. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mothers have martyred themselves in their children's names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist.

What a terrible burden for children to bear - to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible burden for our daughters to bear - to know that if they choose to become mothers, this will be their fate, too. Because if we show them that being a martyr is the highest form of love, that is what they will become. They will feel obligated to love as well as their mothers loved, after all. They will believe they have permission to live only as fully as their mothers allowed themselves to live.

If we keep passing down the legacy of martyrdom to our daughters, with whom does it end? Which woman ever gets to live? And when does the death sentence begin? At the wedding altar? In the delivery room? Whose delivery room - our children's or our own? When we call martyrdom love we teach our children that when love begins, life ends. This is why Jung suggested: There is no greater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent. ~ Glennon Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Glennon Doyle
We sit on park benches and beaches and couches and hilltops, listening and dreaming seemingly to no particular purpose. But isn't it often the case that when we cease to move and think, we see and hear and understand a great deal? ~ Brian Doyle
Gemma Doyle quotes by Brian Doyle
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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My mind rebels at stagnation. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Gemma, I'm not going to hurt you." His voice is as smooth as silk as he winds around the bed, his radiant, green eyes fixed on me. "I promise I won't hurt you. Everything's okay."
I laugh sharply as I put weight on my weak legs. "That's the biggest lie I've ever heard come out of your mouth, which says a lot since you're the biggest liar I've ever met. ~ Jessica Sorensen
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my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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There was, to my mind, something eerie and ghost-like in the endless procession of faces which flitted across these narrow bars of light, - sad faces and glad, haggard and merry. Like all human kind, they flitted from the gloom into the light, and so back into the gloom once more. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance. ~ Mark Frost
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I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance. ~ Christopher Doyle
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My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? ~ Gemma Halliday
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I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker-street we shall just be in time for breakfast. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is Chicagoness? What is the city made of? Why is it different from any other city? What are the things that are here and only here and compose the here of here? He leaned back in his lawn chair and thought a bit and then he said, "The prevalence of the lake. The way the lake is a sea and not a lake. The way the lake shoulders the city. The cutting of wind off the lake and the whirl of snow. ~ Brian Doyle
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It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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