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Top 25 Kelly Loy Gilbert Quotes (2025 Update)

Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Other people don’t exist just to be your happy ending, you know?”

1. “Other people don’t exist just to be your happy ending, you know?”

— Kelly Loy Gilbert

Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “It’s a strange and uniquely painful thing when you try to reach someone and instead you pass right through them, like a ghost; it makes you feel not all the way there yourself.”

2. “It’s a strange and uniquely painful thing when you try to reach someone and instead you pass right through them, like a ghost; it makes you feel not all the way there yourself.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “This is why I hate when people tell me I don’t know how you’re surviving – because it implies you get a choice. What do they think, you’re actually going to die? Because that’s not how it works. You don’t get an escape into nothing.”

3. “This is why I hate when people tell me I don’t know how you’re surviving – because it implies you get a choice. What do they think, you’re actually going to die? Because that’s not how it works. You don’t get an escape into nothing.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “It was just that – it felt like it had all been for nothing. I had been terrified, and I had snapped at Brandon and then hung up on him, and I had, in a way, preemptively lived through disaster; I had emotionally gone through it because it had been real to me – and for what?”

4. “It was just that – it felt like it had all been for nothing. I had been terrified, and I had snapped at Brandon and then hung up on him, and I had, in a way, preemptively lived through disaster; I had emotionally gone through it because it had been real to me – and for what?”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I’ve borrowed another life.”

5. “And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I’ve borrowed another life.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Because I think then I still thought that the sheer force of caring could somehow be enough – that it would matter, that it would change things, in the end.”

6. “Because I think then I still thought that the sheer force of caring could somehow be enough – that it would matter, that it would change things, in the end.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “From watching my parents I think being married or being with someone else in any kind of real way takes a certain amount of bravery, and it’s not something I’m positive I have in me. To pluck your heart from your chest that way and hand it to someone, unprotected, and wait to see how gently they’ll stitch it back in for you, or not – to wake up all those days you’re the crappiest version of yourself and face the person who knows you best, morning after morning, year after year.”

7. “From watching my parents I think being married or being with someone else in any kind of real way takes a certain amount of bravery, and it’s not something I’m positive I have in me. To pluck your heart from your chest that way and hand it to someone, unprotected, and wait to see how gently they’ll stitch it back in for you, or not – to wake up all those days you’re the crappiest version of yourself and face the person who knows you best, morning after morning, year after year.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “And I believed him. It was genuine, that confusion, and that was the first time I really saw him, I think- when I understood that his social persona was concealing none of what I’d always thought it was, but actual kindness instead, that there was a kind streak at his core.”

8. “And I believed him. It was genuine, that confusion, and that was the first time I really saw him, I think- when I understood that his social persona was concealing none of what I’d always thought it was, but actual kindness instead, that there was a kind streak at his core.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Art doesn’t change the ending. It doesn’t let you lose yourself that way – the opposite, really; it calls you from the darkness, into the glaring, unforgiving light. But at least – this is why it will always feel like a calling to me – it lets you not be so alone.”

9. “Art doesn’t change the ending. It doesn’t let you lose yourself that way – the opposite, really; it calls you from the darkness, into the glaring, unforgiving light. But at least – this is why it will always feel like a calling to me – it lets you not be so alone.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “I had always hated inserting myself somewhere I wasn’t openly wanted.”

10. “I had always hated inserting myself somewhere I wasn’t openly wanted.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “We all have those things, I think – those things we want too badly to speak about aloud for fear someone’ll swoop in and tell us we’re just dreaming, those things we hold close and fantasize about at night and swear to the world we don’t care that much about.”

11. “We all have those things, I think – those things we want too badly to speak about aloud for fear someone’ll swoop in and tell us we’re just dreaming, those things we hold close and fantasize about at night and swear to the world we don’t care that much about.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “It’s hard not to lose your foothold when someone peers inside you, sees all those things you tried the hardest to keep hidden, all those ugly shames you’ve tried to tell yourself aren’t really as bad as they seem. All those lies disintegrate in the light.”

12. “It’s hard not to lose your foothold when someone peers inside you, sees all those things you tried the hardest to keep hidden, all those ugly shames you’ve tried to tell yourself aren’t really as bad as they seem. All those lies disintegrate in the light.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “There’s a place in your mind where any voices you let in slip down your spine and into your lungs and heart, become a thing you breathe and bleed.”

13. “There’s a place in your mind where any voices you let in slip down your spine and into your lungs and heart, become a thing you breathe and bleed.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “If nothing else there’s a comfort in knowing someone’s holding space in their own life for what’s hurting you. That’s the thing that makes life bearable sometimes, I think: that you can feel more than one thing at a time, that it floods into you from so many directions at once.”

14. “If nothing else there’s a comfort in knowing someone’s holding space in their own life for what’s hurting you. That’s the thing that makes life bearable sometimes, I think: that you can feel more than one thing at a time, that it floods into you from so many directions at once.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “She’s who he imagines calling first when he gets his letter from Princeton, the audience he pictures when he’s collecting all the important and also the stupid insignificant parts of his day to give to someone? When he imagines disasters happening, cancer or nuclear fallout or the Big One we’re supposed to get in California, at night when it’s quiet and he feels all the weight of his own life pressing in on him, she’s the lurch in his stomach and the hand he gropes around for in the dark?”

15. “She’s who he imagines calling first when he gets his letter from Princeton, the audience he pictures when he’s collecting all the important and also the stupid insignificant parts of his day to give to someone? When he imagines disasters happening, cancer or nuclear fallout or the Big One we’re supposed to get in California, at night when it’s quiet and he feels all the weight of his own life pressing in on him, she’s the lurch in his stomach and the hand he gropes around for in the dark?”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Sometimes, in a crowd, that’s when you’re the most alone.”

16. “Sometimes, in a crowd, that’s when you’re the most alone.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Because if you’re tangled up in someone else, if your futures are tied that way, if that’s real and if you know when it happens – then it means you know who you belong to, and you know whose fates are tied to yours, whether you like it or planned it or not, whether they still exist in the same world with you or they don’t, and I think that’s where everything begins and ends. I think that’s everything.”

17. “Because if you’re tangled up in someone else, if your futures are tied that way, if that’s real and if you know when it happens – then it means you know who you belong to, and you know whose fates are tied to yours, whether you like it or planned it or not, whether they still exist in the same world with you or they don’t, and I think that’s where everything begins and ends. I think that’s everything.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith – it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.”

18. “The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith – it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “I think the way you know you love someone is how badly you take it when they’re suffering.”

19. “I think the way you know you love someone is how badly you take it when they’re suffering.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “If you had to think so hard about whether or not you want to be with someone, what was the point?”

20. “If you had to think so hard about whether or not you want to be with someone, what was the point?”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “There are a million ways you’re wrecked by the absence of someone who belongs there with you.”

21. “There are a million ways you’re wrecked by the absence of someone who belongs there with you.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “I couldn’t bring myself to sing anything during worship and I was still furious at everyone who ever tried to tell me last year God works all things for good, but then during the message I just felt like God was reminding me that the whole history of the world is that it’s fallen. He promises redemption someday, just not yet. And in the meantime whole decades’ worth of the Bible is just grieving all these broken things.”

22. “I couldn’t bring myself to sing anything during worship and I was still furious at everyone who ever tried to tell me last year God works all things for good, but then during the message I just felt like God was reminding me that the whole history of the world is that it’s fallen. He promises redemption someday, just not yet. And in the meantime whole decades’ worth of the Bible is just grieving all these broken things.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “I understood how there are parts of yourself – segments you can measure by time or by depth, by how long or how strongly they were a part of you – that you can’t take back once you’ve offered them to someone who’s made it so clear he never wanted them.”

23. “I understood how there are parts of yourself – segments you can measure by time or by depth, by how long or how strongly they were a part of you – that you can’t take back once you’ve offered them to someone who’s made it so clear he never wanted them.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me.”

24. “Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.”

25. “And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Sometimes you can believe in the heart of another person. And sometimes, I think, you can also believe in your own – that it’s stronger than you realized, that it can hold multiple things at once, like anxiety and also hope, the future and also the past. It can hold space for another person without forfeiting itself.”

26. “Sometimes you can believe in the heart of another person. And sometimes, I think, you can also believe in your own – that it’s stronger than you realized, that it can hold multiple things at once, like anxiety and also hope, the future and also the past. It can hold space for another person without forfeiting itself.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “But when I really think about it, I wonder if maybe it’s more than that; maybe it’s something that hits close to the deepest core of who I am. I’m not a religious person, but what I have with Harry is the closest thing I have – when I am with him is when the world is at its clearest for me.”

27. “But when I really think about it, I wonder if maybe it’s more than that; maybe it’s something that hits close to the deepest core of who I am. I’m not a religious person, but what I have with Harry is the closest thing I have – when I am with him is when the world is at its clearest for me.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “I was not the kind of person people did this sort of thing for. Like elaborate promposals, or surprise birthday parties – I was not first in anyone’s life except for my mother’s. I was not someone about whom people sent time cataloguing my favorite tea or fruit or crackers, thinking about what sort of gesture might mean something to me.”

28. “I was not the kind of person people did this sort of thing for. Like elaborate promposals, or surprise birthday parties – I was not first in anyone’s life except for my mother’s. I was not someone about whom people sent time cataloguing my favorite tea or fruit or crackers, thinking about what sort of gesture might mean something to me.”

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Kelly Loy Gilbert Quote: “Perhaps, holding you there in her arms, amazed at the heft of you, the fact of you, your mother can fool herself into believing she’ll hold on to you like this all your life.”

29. “Perhaps, holding you there in her arms, amazed at the heft of you, the fact of you, your mother can fool herself into believing she’ll hold on to you like this all your life.”

— Kelly Loy Gilbert

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