Gabrielle Williams > Quotes

“And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.”
― Gabrielle Williams, Beatle Meets Destiny

“You know what they say about mistakes though,' she said, all breathy and half-lipsy. 'It's the only way you ever learn anything.' And she leant forward and kissed him. Right there, in the middle of the bar. Right there, in the middle of his lips.”
― Gabrielle Williams, Beatle Meets Destiny

“Occasionally someone or other got donked on the head by Cupid's arrow, and laughed, saying it's 'a definite sign', that 'it had to mean something'. One guy grabbed his girlfriend and lifted her up so that she was hit on the head by the arrow, and then said, 'There, now you've got no choice but to fall in love with me', and she laughed as he put her back down on the ground and kissed her mouth.”
― Gabrielle Williams, Beatle Meets Destiny

“I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a drain, or past a church, I think of him. Every time I see a can of Coke, I think of Jones. And don't even start me on how I feel when I see department-store Santas.

A girl doesn't forget a guy like Jones in a big hurry. Even ow, when none of us are front-page news any longer, he's always in my head.

My name is Dodie.
Doe - as in don't change a thing (well, a couple of things I'd change).
Dee - as in delighted to have known you, Sebastian Worthington Jones.
Dodie Farnshaw.”
― Gabrielle Williams, The Reluctant Hallelujah

“If I set my stones, my mum would be an opal, all swirly colours and clashy statements. I would put her at the north point of my stone compass and be grateful to her for my brains, and the fact that I stand up for myself. I'd be grateful to her for the ease with which I laugh, although I wish she'd rein in her own guffaws sometimes because really, who needs to be that loud? I was grateful that she didn't hover over me like some parents who couldn't seem to let their (nearly adult) children out of their sight without keeping constant telephone contact. He'll, I was even grateful that she had strict house rules that were a pain in the arse, because we both knew it would be much easier if she said yes, but she did no because she really believed no was the right answer.”
― Gabrielle Williams, The Reluctant Hallelujah

“There's a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he's called into the balloon principal's office, and the balloon principal tells him, 'You've let me down, you've let your school down, you've let your parents down, you've let your friends down. But most importantly you've let yourself down'.”
― Gabrielle Williams , Beatle Meets Destiny

“Little did I know that today was only the start of everything getting very, very much worse.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“She had a sense that if she thought about it hard and long enough, she just might be able to grasp what she was doing here.”
― Gabrielle Williams, It's Not You, It's Me

“I felt like I'd been angry for months now and suddenly I realised that I didn't need to be. Everyone had shit times. It was just life.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“I wanted to get away from myself, but everywhere I looked, there I was.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“I was going to have the worst night of my life, and they should be there for it. That was what friends did for each other.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“Strange images wove together, but there was no clear thread. Trinity felt like if she stepped back she should be able to see a bigger picture, but instead, all the answers were unspooling. The harder she looked, the less she could see.”
― Gabrielle Williams, It's Not You, It's Me

“But I haven't finished laughing yet.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“There was a gap where her memory was supposed to fit.”
― Gabrielle Williams, It's Not You, It's Me

“Press them too hard and they'd crumble to dust.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag

“Surely your most basic expectation was that your house would be on your street.”
― Gabrielle Williams, It's Not You, It's Me

“Parents party differently.”
― Gabrielle Williams, My Life as a Hashtag