Gabrielle Quotes

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

Work travel for me, which is - I hate to say it - more enjoyable now that I have kids.

In some ways, I'm relieved that I didn't have a son.

Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

I love TV. I love the stability of it.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

Boys are so much drama.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

I'm allergic to sad memories. It's the worst.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

"I accept your condemnation," I said.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

My brain said no. But my heart!

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.