Gwendoline Riley Quotes

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die,' I say, we just met.

~ Gwendoline Riley

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

~ Gwendoline Riley

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

~ Gwendoline Riley

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.

~ Gwendoline Riley

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

~ Gwendoline Riley

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

~ Gwendoline Riley

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.

~ Gwendoline Riley

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

~ Gwendoline Riley

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

~ Gwendoline Riley

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

~ Gwendoline Riley