Clare Gilmore > Quotes

“Do I really need to remind you what you whispered to me in this very elevator on your first day?”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“The fact that I infuriated you only made me want you more desperately.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“It’s miraculous to be understood, and then to be wanted anyway.”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit: A Novel

“In the end, he drew the same conclusion about my songs that I did. They change meaning the second someone claims them. They belong to every person who listens in specific ways I'll never comprehend.
If music is an offering, I'd hold mine out to the world and say, I made this with the best intentions. You can share it with me, if you want, and take a piece of it to keep for good. You can even move it to a different place on the circle and make it into something else, something unrecognizable to my eyes, and that would be an honor.
It would be an honor to see where I end and where music keeps going. It would be an honor to see what happens when other people claim pieces of the art I made. And even when that happens, it won't change this, or what it meant to me when I made it.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“The funny part is my gut reaction is to come up with something to say next that won't make him uncomfortable. What would I do otherwise? Cause a scene? Claim harassment by a man who likely helped pay for the open bar I'm drinking at because he tapped my hip and clavicle? I hate myself a little for the passivity of it, but in professional situations like this, with my literal livelihood at stake, I revert to a sacred little girl who has internalized that under no circumstances should she ruffle affluent society's feathers.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“I don’t want us to be a distraction for each other.” Will slips his hands into the pockets of his slacks. He laughs briefly, bites his lip, and asks, “Do you plan to stop existing?”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit: A Novel

“But I think the point is actually that once you let a song leave you, you're sharing the pain, splitting the burden of it. Somebody else accepts a piece of it, and then you're not in a lonely house anymore.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“In my head, Eugenia's words repeat on a loop: We don't give our unconditional love to the things that hurt us. "I have loved this company with my whole heart, the whole time," I go on. "It has saved me, and healed me, and broken me in half. I've given the employees and the customers all I can. And now I just don't know if I have anything left to give." ...

... "I loved my CEO classes. I love the people I work with, and I love the work, too. But lately, it hasn't been loving me, my body, my mind. I'm not showing up as my best anymore,

”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“I'm saying people aren't meant to be controlled, and neither is art”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“All you did was pout. You were Season One Conrad Fisher. You were Olivia Rodrigo’s entire Sour album”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit: A Novel

“I thought you and I decided a long time ago that we could be different than what we were told to be."

"I'm trying," I whisper.

"Then you're already doing more than enough.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“Yes, I download, use, and delete the app (in that order) every couple of months.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“It all comes down to what you leave behind.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Well, for your information, I'm an aspiring vegetarian."

"How does that work?" he asks.

"I'm always aspiring, Never vegetarian," I answer.

”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“What if you took from me what you wanted and left the rest? I can take it.' His voice is deep in his throat, breath warm on my skin. 'Use me. Please. It would be an honor. I can exist for you only in moments like this one. I can be scarce when you need me not to exist.”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“It is because of the city, or the job, or the boy named Alex?" Jerry asks.

All of the above, my mind supplies. But really, those are just inputs, variables for an equation that adds up to the sum total of whatever's in my eyes Jerry noticed when I smile. I'm the one who made the decision to include them - the job, the city, the boy named Alex.

I push my damp hair out of my face and smile again. "Honestly, Jer... I think it's because of me.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Nobody ever gets anywhere interesting when things are comfortable.”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“His voice scalds me. “Don’t make me beg, Casey.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Alex's honesty is so disarming, it scares me. He doesn't have walls anymore. He wants me to know him.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“In my head, Eugenia's words repeat on a loop: We don't give our unconditional love to the things that hurt us. "I have loved this company with my whole heart, the whole time," I go on. "It has saved me, and healed me, and broken me in half. I've given the employees and the customers all I can. And now I just don't know if I have anything left to give." ...

... "I loved my CEO classes. I love the people I work with, and I love the work, too. But lately, it hasn't been loving me, my body, my mind. I'm not showing up as my best anymore,

”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“Your avoidance tactics are extraordinary.”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit: A Novel

“One hundred percent.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“What if taking something seriously is what kills my love for it?"

"Well, now you just sound like my exes," she whispers with a sarcastic smirk.”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“designing her OOTD in the floor-length mirror.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Yes”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“Mom: Happy birthday darling, I’ve sent you several articles via email on Barcelona crime”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit: A Novel

“There’s only one bed,” he blurts.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“Adderall screws with my appetite.”
― Clare Gilmore, Love Interest

“close to you,”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over

“I’m over it,”
― Clare Gilmore, Never Over