Top 40 Gemma Malley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.”

— Gemma Malley

2. “You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.”

— Gemma Malley

3. “Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.”

— Gemma Malley

4. “There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.”

— Gemma Malley

5. “Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.”

— Gemma Malley

6. “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”

— Gemma Malley

7. “All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can’t exist without hell.”

— Gemma Malley

8. “Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.”

— Gemma Malley

9. “But was falling such a bad thing, she wondered. Was it, perhaps better to see the top of the mountain, even if only for a moment, than never to even try? Or was it that the higher you allow yourself to climb, the further you have to come crashing down to earth?”

— Gemma Malley

10. “I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.”

— Gemma Malley

11. “Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man’s capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man’s desire for power, to beat down his competition – it hasn’t changed in the slightest.”

— Gemma Malley

12. “Everyone would fear her again. And love her, of course. Mrs Pincent needed to be loved as much as wanted to be feared-to her they were two sides of the same coin. Both gave her total control.”

— Gemma Malley

13. “But there was nothing beautiful about the word “brainwash”. To clean the brain. To strip it bare.”

— Gemma Malley

14. “Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.”

— Gemma Malley

15. “It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.”

— Gemma Malley

16. “You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.”

— Gemma Malley

17. “Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.”

— Gemma Malley

18. “What does time matter when every moment is stolen anyway?”

— Gemma Malley

19. “You mustn’t let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn’t change things.”

— Gemma Malley

20. “The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn’t intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.”

— Gemma Malley

21. “The truth was that she’d never realised how absorbing it could be to write.”

— Gemma Malley

22. “The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.”

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23. “Curiosity also makes a great student.”

— Gemma Malley

24. “I love you Anna Covey,′ he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn’t a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.”

— Gemma Malley

25. “Forever isn’t important-it’s now that counts. Doing the right thing.”

— Gemma Malley

26. “We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.”

— Gemma Malley

27. “Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn’t it?”

— Gemma Malley

28. “You mustn’t try to hold on to things that are past their sell-by date.”

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29. “I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.”

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30. “But each time, nothing was done, because change carried risks, because change led to instability, because new technology meant using precious energy, and because, at the end of the day, no one really cared.”

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31. “You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn’t cause suffering and pain.”

— Gemma Malley

32. “She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.”

— Gemma Malley

33. “They let you down, you let them down, then they’re your best friend, until next time.”

— Gemma Malley

34. “The snow is not falling for you.”

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35. “Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.”

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36. “I think flowers can be just as important as food, sometimes. I think id depends what you’re hungry for.”

— Gemma Malley

37. “Usually she loved to learn new words, treating them as exciting possessions that she could employ as she chose-in her journal, in her conversation-relishing the newness and beauty of each one.”

— Gemma Malley

38. “Because man still feared death, feared disappearing into nothingness, feared how death made each life insignificant.”

— Gemma Malley

39. “Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person’s needs before your own.”

— Gemma Malley

40. “The only people who fear death are the ones who haven’t lived.”

— Gemma Malley