Gail Giles > Quotes

“I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“WORDS ARE TEETH.
AND THEY EAT ME ALIVE.
FEED ON MY CORPSE INSTEAD.”
― Gail Giles, What Happened to Cass McBride?

“You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Break up? We didn't break up. He gave me away.”
― Gail Giles, Shattering Glass

“Jessica: 'This is a chick flick. You're either trying too hard or gay.'

Wade: 'One: I was brought up to be polite. That means to think of the other person first. I thought you would enjoy this movie. Two: Most of the other movies are abou tkillings, bombings, explosions, resulting fires, and have big body counts before the opening credits are run. I don't like those movies. If that makes me a girl, okay. Three: I do like movies about sports. Of any kind. I think that makes me less of a girl. But none are playing tonight. Four: The woman in this movie is hot. Let's cross gay off your list. Five: I gave up trying too hard awhile back. Didn't work for me.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.”
― Gail Giles, Shattering Glass

“We were random stars, and he made us a constellation.”
― Gail Giles, Shattering Glass

“...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment”
― Gail Giles, Dark Song

“You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122)”
― Gail Giles, Shattering Glass

“If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“You're not tough. You're broken.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“With the sound of waves outside, the bed seemed like our own Guld and we were swimmers. Front to front, out bodies slicked with sweat, each swimming and stroking, one against the other. We rode the waves to the crests, then plummeted down, only to ride the wave to the next breaker. We swam against the current that threatened to pull us under.”
― Gail Giles, Playing in Traffic

“Sometimes I don't know what to do with this much happy.”
― Gail Giles, Girls Like Us

“When you wade, you're kind of bogged down. You can't walk, or run; you're not swimming; you're kind of fighting the water all the time.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted.”
― Gail Giles, Dark Song

“You turn often enough, you end up straight ahead again.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“They were appliances left unplugged.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“A thief, stealing his friendship.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“I refuse to forgive anyone because that implies that I'm superior-that I have a right to make a judgement.”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“Why make waves if you don't know how to surf?”
― Gail Giles, Right Behind You

“I got all the candy and cookies in the house and pinned them inside my coat. So nobody could trick me again.”
― Gail Giles, Girls Like Us

“Leastwise, if I live with her, I finally be the smartest person in the house.”
― Gail Giles, Girls Like Us

“That cold, hard feeling I always had inside me felt like it be slipping a bit sideways. Biddy is plumb scared to come out in the world, and she was coming here to protect me from Robert.”
― Gail Giles, Girls Like Us

“¨Then anyone who is the alpha wolf takes over.¨”
― Gail Giles, Shattering Glass

“It’s hard knowing that real people can make mistakes just like girls like us.”
― Gail Giles, Girls Like Us