Gemma Halliday > Quotes

“Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth!”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I'll go," he said.
"And that's safer because?"
"I'm a guy."
"Right, and having a pair of dingle balls makes you invincible how?”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I lied, I like your Star Wars sheets, you're not that bad of a driver, and I swear on my Very Cherry lip gloss that I will never lie to you again.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"
Chase narrowed his eyes again.
"Sam?"
I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“The first thing I did was run. Okay, actually the first thing I did was scream, lose my balance, flail my arms in the air like some kind of uncoordinated bird, then slide down the side of the tree and land on my butt.

Then I ran.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“Mental face palm. Suddenly I wasn't sure there was enough room on the campus for both me and his ego.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“In the immortal words of Mr. Burns.......eeeeexcellent.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“We actually wanted to ask you a few questions. About the interview you did this morning."
At the mention of her KTVU debut, Caitlyn softened a little. "You saw that?"
I nodded.
"How did I look on camera?"
Her grief was touching.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I didn't point out that Courtney and I were hardly BFFs. In Mom's world everyone under the age of eighteen was friends with everyone else, like we were all part of some secret society of minors.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“I need to be casual but not too casual. Dressy but not too dressy. I need him to think I just threw on the first thing I found and that I'm not taking this too seriously or overthinking it or even that I was thinking about it at all. Because I'm not. I'm totally not thinking about him, and I don't want him to think I was thinking about him, but I don't want him to think that I'm not thinking about him, because clearly he thought about me enough to ask me out and it would be mean not to be thinking about him at all, so I need just the right amount of thinking, and I'm not sure if that means boots and a skirt or skinny jeans and ballet flats. Help!”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“No matter how much I may love—scratch that, loved, past tense—Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure.
Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure.
On his larynx.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“There are three things you never want to find in your boyfriend's locker: a sweaty jockstrap, a D minus on last week's history test, and an empty condom wrapper.
Lucky me, I'd hit the trifecta.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“Our bodies are our temples. They should have a little more respect for themselves than that.”
“You know, I could have sworn I saw you shoveling Cheetos into your temple last week.”
“Oh, but I’m pretty sure those were nonfat,” Kaylee piped up.
Oh brother.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“ Chase leaned in close. "hey" What?
Are you wearing perfume? No... why would I be wearing perfume?... You sure you're not wearing anything? It smells like jasmine. Must be the bushes”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“Bull-fluff. You didn't break up with a girlfriend of a whole year because of stuff.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“Okay, if there's one thing you don't ever say to a woman on the edge it's that she's hormonal.”
― Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels

“To say I didn't have great luck in the guy department was like saying Ryan Seacrest didn't have great luck in the height department: total understatement.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.”
― Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels

“Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so?”
― Gemma Halliday, Killer in High Heels

“Holy effing crap, that sucks!"
I turned to her. "Effing?"
Sam shrugged. "What?"
"We're censoring now?"
"Kyle says I have a mouth like a trucker.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus humping butt monkey" - Hartley Featherston”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Wow, you know a lot of swear words," Sam commented at one point. "And here I thought I had a dirty mouth."
"What can I say? Apparently candid porn starring my boyfriend brings out the best in me.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Connor Crane was currently the secret crush of half the female HHH population. And a couple of the males, too.”
― Gemma Halliday, Social Suicide

“My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?”
― Gemma Halliday, Killer in High Heels

“Which leads me to ask...what exactly are you going to do when we get there?"
I thought about it. "Rip Josh's nuggets off and feed them to his hamster?”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Mom perched on the edge of our sofa, her forehead etched with a line of concern I'd grown to know well. It was the same one she'd flashed at me when I pointed to the twisty slide, the same one she'd pulled out when I'd taken up Tae Kwon Do in third grade, and the same one that had frozen on her features all through driver's ed last spring. It was her SMother face.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool