Kate Galley > Quotes

“I think you're to be congratulated on your kind nature, Gina. It's an excellent trait to see mostly good in people. But, please don't confuse wonderful host with narcissistic show-off with head up own arse”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“A child should not have to listen to tales of a failed marriage, no matter how old that child was”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“When no one ever tells you what is going on, I find it's best to quietly listen, otherwise you'll always be in the dark. That's not a smart place to be”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“Memories were not things cemented into the fabric of a home, they were thoughts you could carry with you, weren't they?”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“I had learned many years ago that it really was possible to carry with you what meant most to you. Everything else was just excess”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“She asks in such a way that makes me feel I have no choice. I remember her doing this before. A question that really isn't a question, more of a demand, a suggestion that comes with a heavy dose of expectation”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“I look at my companions and see the possibility of a different sort of life; one filled with friendship and sharing. I could step out of the darkness I've built around myself and embrace something new, but perhaps that's the wine talking”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“so intense it didn’t seem real after the grey mass”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“I have always said that September is my favourite time of the year and here I am heading into the season of bonfires and cardigans, of fiery trees and homemade soup, of squirrels digging in the lawn and spiders moving into the bathroom. ‘I am here and I need to find a way to embrace this glorious time while it”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“They should be grateful we only want equality and not revenge.”
― Kate Galley, The Old Girls' Chateau Escape

“Everybody loved Tony Pringle; he was charming and handsome, and he could make you feel like the most important person in the world. He could also make you feel as if you mattered so little to him that he could brush you aside in favour of a new car, a new venture - in fact, anything new.”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“You took advantage of me, Douglas. You took advantage of my state of mind. You turned me into a doormat over the years and then casually wiped your feet on the way out”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“It seems that if you repeatedly tell yourself something didn't happen, after a while it's just possible to believe it”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“Dorothy tended to be impulsive and held a grudge like a drowning person would hold on to a life belt”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“I prefer my art clean-cut and easily understandable. If a piece takes too long to interpret I tend to lose interest, although it hasn't always been that way. I think my patience and attention span is waning a bit as I get older. It's the same with books. I balk at anything over four hundred and fifty pages. I'd likely be dead before I'd got to the end”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“made”
― Kate Galley, The Old Girls' Chateau Escape

“Sometimes I try really hard not to think about the summer I turned eighteen. On other occasions I allow the memories to engulf me, to wrap themselves around me”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“Well, I could hang it on the wall at home to remind myself of this eventful trip. Sometimes you need to think about making new memories," she says, as if she's read my mind. "It's painful, but it has to be done”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“Maybe she thought she was protecting you by keeping quiet. Sometimes people do the wrong thing for the right reason”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“Judgement without knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
― Kate Galley, The Old Girls' Chateau Escape

“Sandra is incredibly sorry and it's obvious she didn't want to do it, but she still did. She chose to do Leonard's bidding to save the reputation of her son. A mother's love should only go so far”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“One of her cocktail parties would do that to her – leave her needing beauty sleep to recharge her batteries ready for the next one.”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“Making new memories is painful but important, Cynthia said, but this doesn't feel painful at all - it feels liberating”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“A sense of purpose settles over me then. This lacklustre backdrop for Christmas is probably a blessing. I can do what I came to do without interference. With everyone preoccupied in the bar, I can slip out without being noticed, keep my head down, stay under the radar and leave the others to make what they will of their Christmas break”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“As the manager, she takes the shop very seriously, but I sometimes think that no matter how much she says she appreciates what us volunteers do, the truth is we're a bit of a nuisance”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“Of course it's up to you and I'm sure you know best. But, I would say that people usually regret the things they don't do, not the things they do”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“I suddenly thought of the principles of art history operations: description, analysis, interpretation and judgement”
― Kate Galley, Old Girls Behaving Badly

“museum”
― Kate Galley, The Golden Girls Road Trip

“What was it Doctor Graham once told me? 'It's not good to watch life from the sidelines.' It's this thought that propels me across the road. I can't go back next week and tell the doctor I gave up; it would be humiliating”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club

“Clever man, to remember your son like that. Is that the way to woman's heart these days, through her children?”
― Kate Galley, The Second Chance Holiday Club