Gemma Malley Quotes

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.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

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.

~ Gemma Malley

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

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all o fit, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing.

~ Gemma Malley

Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.

~ Gemma Malley

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.

~ Gemma Malley

Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

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.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

You are on the side of angels. But even angels fall, sometimes. We all make mistakes; without them we would learn nothing.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

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.

~ Gemma Malley

Curiosity also makes a great student.

~ Gemma Malley

It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.

~ Gemma Malley

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

~ Gemma Malley

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?

~ Gemma Malley

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.

~ Gemma Malley

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

~ Gemma Malley

I know that we have to live each moment because we won’t be here for ever, and that I wouldn’t want to be anyway, because knowing something’s going to end makes you appreciate it more, makes you want to savour every moment.And I know that I won’t sign the Declaration, even if it makes me different, even if it makes me suspicious. Because no one needs to live for ever.I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

~ Gemma Malley

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.

~ Gemma Malley