Gwendoline Riley Quotes

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

He lies down next to me.
He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/'
'Well, don't die,' I say, "we just met.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'

He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.