The Flight of Gemma Hardy Quotes

“Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“Do you know,” he said, “that there are people who can’t go near high places not because they’re afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump?”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“I hope you get the good weather" she said. "And I hope you"ll be very, very happy."
As I walked down the winding street people kept smiling at me--first two middle aged women, then a woman with a baby, then a grizzled man in a tweed cap and anorak, then two girls my own age. When
a boy on a tricycle beamed at me, I finally understood it was because of my own broad smile.”
― Margot Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy