Gemma-doyle Quotes

I change the world, the world changes me.

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, e...

Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every...

Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's s...

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, ...

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, ...

One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a...

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall...

Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met ...

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so qui...

But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But c...

I know you adore Father, but he isn't the white knight you imagine him to be. He never was. True, he...

My whole life I’ve been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders.” I’ve never seen Felicity so wou...

You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I...

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cu...