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Top 25 Gillian McAllister Quotes (2025 Update)

Gillian McAllister Quote: “Keep on keeping on.”

1. “Keep on keeping on.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Apricity. That’s what it’s called. A word Reuben taught me: the warmth of the sun in winter.”

2. “Apricity. That’s what it’s called. A word Reuben taught me: the warmth of the sun in winter.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “My lens is wide-angle. Hers is narrow, but clearer. I like the hyper-logic of it.”

3. “My lens is wide-angle. Hers is narrow, but clearer. I like the hyper-logic of it.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “It’s so easy for false thoughts to pass through the net of your mind, not being caught, and to become truths.”

4. “It’s so easy for false thoughts to pass through the net of your mind, not being caught, and to become truths.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “My entire life I’d been so bloody frightened of what everybody thought of me and my failed existence and yet, when I failed spectacularly – sank so much lower, so much worse than failing a degree – I realized the truth of it: nobody cares what you think as much as you do. Not even close.”

5. “My entire life I’d been so bloody frightened of what everybody thought of me and my failed existence and yet, when I failed spectacularly – sank so much lower, so much worse than failing a degree – I realized the truth of it: nobody cares what you think as much as you do. Not even close.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Every house needs a cat,’ he said. ‘Every single one. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.”

6. “Every house needs a cat,’ he said. ‘Every single one. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Deep breaths in and out. Feelings weren’t feelings. They were tangled mixtures of hormones: cortisol, adrenaline, rushing through her system, telling her lies. She knew this, and still they felt real.”

7. “Deep breaths in and out. Feelings weren’t feelings. They were tangled mixtures of hormones: cortisol, adrenaline, rushing through her system, telling her lies. She knew this, and still they felt real.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Maybe it really is simply about books, and the things they can do for people.”

8. “Maybe it really is simply about books, and the things they can do for people.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “He made me somehow see that life didn’t have to be experienced in a big way, and that happiness was small, really.”

9. “He made me somehow see that life didn’t have to be experienced in a big way, and that happiness was small, really.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “How sinister it is to relive your life backward. To see things you hadn’t at the time. To realize the horrible significance of events you had no idea were playing out around you. To uncover lies told by your husband. Jen would always have said Kelly was as straight as they come. But don’t all good liars seem that way?”

10. “How sinister it is to relive your life backward. To see things you hadn’t at the time. To realize the horrible significance of events you had no idea were playing out around you. To uncover lies told by your husband. Jen would always have said Kelly was as straight as they come. But don’t all good liars seem that way?”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Banter can hide the worst sins. Some people laugh to hide their shame, they laugh instead of saying I feel embarrassed and small.”

11. “Banter can hide the worst sins. Some people laugh to hide their shame, they laugh instead of saying I feel embarrassed and small.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “They, mother and son, are a zipper, slowly separating as the years rush by.”

12. “They, mother and son, are a zipper, slowly separating as the years rush by.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “What we were we are; we always will be.”

13. “What we were we are; we always will be.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.”

14. “We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases.”

15. “Everything in parenthood feels so endless until it ceases.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds. It’s a phrase of theirs, spanning back decades.”

16. “Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds. It’s a phrase of theirs, spanning back decades.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Quit, if you want to,” she says. “Life’s too short to staple dead Dalmatians to chairs forever.”

17. “Quit, if you want to,” she says. “Life’s too short to staple dead Dalmatians to chairs forever.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “It’s complicated,’ Jack had said. ‘She was your mum and you loved her and she died. And she’d been unfaithful and she wasn’t always nice to you.’ He’d held his hands out like weighing scales. I could see it, then, for the first time. Both sides could be correct. The truth was complicated. I could love her and miss her and not miss her, all at the same time.”

18. “It’s complicated,’ Jack had said. ‘She was your mum and you loved her and she died. And she’d been unfaithful and she wasn’t always nice to you.’ He’d held his hands out like weighing scales. I could see it, then, for the first time. Both sides could be correct. The truth was complicated. I could love her and miss her and not miss her, all at the same time.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “The maternal habit of a lifetime, feeling guilty no matter which she chose.”

19. “The maternal habit of a lifetime, feeling guilty no matter which she chose.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Don’t worry. It’s – it’s nothing, probably,” she adds, wondering why she has always felt the need to do that. To be easygoing, not to worry people, to be good.”

20. “Don’t worry. It’s – it’s nothing, probably,” she adds, wondering why she has always felt the need to do that. To be easygoing, not to worry people, to be good.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “There is nothing I won’t do to help you: there is nothing I can’t do. All parents are superheroes, for this very reason.”

21. “There is nothing I won’t do to help you: there is nothing I can’t do. All parents are superheroes, for this very reason.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “And, when you don’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anybody else, either.”

22. “And, when you don’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anybody else, either.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”

23. “But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Whatever it is you’ve done, Jen thinks, I’ll never not love you.”

24. “Whatever it is you’ve done, Jen thinks, I’ll never not love you.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds.”

25. “Life’s too long for this worry,” he adds.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Walk around them like they’re statues. Love them, just love them, and never go forward into the darkness and lies that await them, remaining here in blissful ignorance.”

26. “Walk around them like they’re statues. Love them, just love them, and never go forward into the darkness and lies that await them, remaining here in blissful ignorance.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Like the hindsight paradox,” he continues, when he’s bought the doughnuts. “Everyone thinks they knew what was going to happen. They said, I knew it all along! but, actually, they would say that no matter what the outcome. Because our brains are so good at considering every possibility. We’ve known whenever anything was going to happen.”

27. “Like the hindsight paradox,” he continues, when he’s bought the doughnuts. “Everyone thinks they knew what was going to happen. They said, I knew it all along! but, actually, they would say that no matter what the outcome. Because our brains are so good at considering every possibility. We’ve known whenever anything was going to happen.”

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Gillian McAllister Quote: “Maybe if she stops trying to learn from it, something will happen.”

28. “Maybe if she stops trying to learn from it, something will happen.”

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