Emily Gale > Quotes

“so many flights were cancelled because of the virus”
― Emily Gale, Elsewhere Girls

“...Whoever said that pain healed with time was just making it up for something to say. Pain circled around up high like a bird of prey, and you were a tiny mouse on the ground. At times you didn't even know the bird was up there, but then you might fall under its shadow again.You could either stay inside your hole and never go out, or you could run the risk and see what else was outside.”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

“Parents are the most confused people - they urge us forwards into every next stage, but then hold us back if they transition becomes inconvenient. Grow up! Don't grow up so fast! What's the right speed? What's the right way?”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“The problem isn't skirt length. The problem isn't lipstick.
The problem isn't selfies. The problem isn't new.
The problem isn't girls”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“Apparently there were seven stages of grief but that was a neat way of putting it. Grief was messy and didn't colour inside the lines”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

“The hard Cornish rain somehow knew its job. It did its best to drown out the sound of our hearts breaking.”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

“What for?' I say.
'To build her profile,' Julie answers, hands on hips in high-performance black fabric. 'A lovely, pretty girl writing her own songs. She'd get thousands of likes.
'But what's the point?' I go on. 'You can't cash in the likes at Coles.”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“Some news outlets run a different story about it every day. Even though loads of the comments under the articles say there's no logic to it and that the whole thing is a joke, this tiny minority of scaremongers feel much more powerful than they should. I hate seeing someone painted in the wrong light.”
― Emily Gale

“In the case of half of the schools on my list, the username is 'admin' and the password is 'password', which says to me that a lot of high-school IT people really hate their job.”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“Some news outlets run a different story about it every day. Even though loads of the comments under the articles say there’s no logic to it and that the whole thing is a joke, this tiny minority of scaremongers feel much more powerful than they should.
I hate seeing someone painted in the wrong light.”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“...I mean, I think there are infinite possibilities in this universe. We're only a tiny part of it.”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

“Humans had a choice and you could drive yourself mad trying to understand why they kept destroying each other.”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer

“And the only thing worse than painful memories would be none at all.”
― Emily Gale, The Other Side of Summer