Gwen & Art Are Not in Love Quotes

“Nobody else is ever going to care as much as you do about the things that you want, Gwendoline. So it's up to you - you can put them aside forever, if you can live with that, or you can put on your big-girl girdle and demand more for yourself.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I don’t think doing a difficult thing and being happy are mutually exclusive, Gabriel. I think you could both have some of the things you want, if you’re brave enough to ask for them.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I don't even like him,' Gwen said eventually, and Bridget laughed quietly. 'He grows on you.' 'Like mould,' said Gwen. 'Like one of those plants that strangles trees.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I'm not like you, Arthur. You do what you like, and kiss who you like, and damn the consequences.’

‘I am living with the consequences right now,’ Arthur said bitterly. 'I am drinking juice with the consequences.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“The thing is,' Gwen said, muffled again against her dress, 'I think I could love a man. I just...haven't. I don't notice many people in that way. And if I could love a man, then surely I should try. It would make everything so much easier.'
'You could,' said Arthur. 'You could fall in love with a man, and know that you once liked Bridget, and neither of those things would change the other. They would both be true. But right now you do like Bridget. So I don't think you should settle for a life that denies that particular truth.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“To be truly brave, first you must be afraid. And to be afraid, you must have something you cannot bear to lose.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Her father sighed, rubbing at his beard. "The problem with compromise,' he said eventually, 'is that, often, everybody loses. You sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Definitely' Arthur said. 'Absolutely. He's not – you know. He barely talks. He reads books.' It was true; Gabriel was not his usual type, and he needed to be practical. It would be one thing to risk his neck for some confident, dashing prince with muscled thighs and witty repartee to truly die for, but Gabriel was quiet, and strange, and ultimately just- not worth the hassle. Even if he was nice to birds.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Begone, tiny demon,” he hissed over his shoulder. The cat blinked back at him, then sloped off in the opposite direction as the guards let Arthur inside.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I'm crying because I was just in a bloody battle. It was awful, I hated every second of it and I would not recommend it to a friend. And, yes I supposed I'm also crying because I love you and I'm so pleased to see you.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Walk like you don’t care where your limbs are,’ Agnes said, doing a
much better job of it than Gwen. ‘As if it’s of no consequence to you where
they end up. Like this. See? Swing them about. And you should act, at all
times, as if your crotch is a burden.’

‘Now hang on,’ said Arthur. ‘I’m a man, and my crotch isn’t a burden.’

‘Maybe not to you,’ said Gwen. ‘But it’s a burden on the rest of
humanity.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“You make a good point,' Arthur said diplomatically. Unfortunately, I'm not actually in the market for good points, so--shut up and put your mustache on.'
...
'I made you a false mustache!' Arthur said, outraged. 'I did crafts for you! The least you can do is act grateful.'
'Thank you for my cat-hair mustache,' Gwen said, rolling her eyes. 'It's truly disgusting. I hope you washed it first.'
Arthur winked at her in a way he probably imagined was roguish and charming. 'I can guarantee you that I did not.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“If you wanted to come and find me, I've actually been pretty stationary. You know. Nearly dying.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“He's quite short.'.
'So are you, ' snapped Gwen.
'I'm taller than you,' Authur said, his voice squeaking a little in indignation.
"You're the same height as me, ' Gwen hissed. ' Now shut up "
"You are freakishly tall for a woman,' muttered Arthur.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“You moon, I’m afraid. But she must find it endearing. Can’t say I understand the appeal. I like my men emotionally repressed and unavailable.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Shame. That was the feeling. She felt flooded with it, like it was curdling the blood in her veins and taking root in the pit of her stomach. This is what comes of wanting things.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I didn’t say I was going to bed,” Arthur said petulantly. “I said I was leaving. If you assumed I was going to bed, that just demonstrates your utter lack of imagination.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“she was born from magic, and to magic she returned”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“That's the spirit. Now, come on. Chin up, shoulders back; let's go and show them a new England.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“It’s not a dream,” Gwen said. “Trust me. In the dream, you’re always on a unicorn.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Studying for what?”
They were slowing down, and Arthur didn’t know who had initiated it. He was usually a fastidiously fast walker; Sidney was forever complaining about it.
“Um. Everything? My future,” Gabriel said.
Arthur’s instinct was to laugh, but he managed to keep himself in check. “You’re studying for life? For your life? Is there a—is there a how-to guide for monarchs? Tips and tricks for subjugating the masses? Prevent a revolt in ten easy steps?”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“What did you do?”
“Kissed him,” Arthur said matter-of-factly. “In the bird shed.”
“Shit,” said Sidney. “Is that some sort of slang for something I don’t want to know about?”
“No, it was a literal—it was a shed full of birds.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“If I'd bumped into your father, I'd be talking to him about tax evasion.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Well. You’re built for reading,” Arthur said, his words punctuated by the sound of blade against blade. “Reading—in a darkened room—until covered in a fine layer of dust.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I wouldn’t mind, you know. If you did harbor expectations. In fact, I’d do my very best to exceed them.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“God, Gwen thought wistfully. I hope she stabs me.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“She couldn't tell which was winning out - her utter devastation at Gabriel's lack of support, at the way he'd made her feel so monstrous, of the suspicion that she was monstrous; that is was somehow a dishonorable thing to look at Bridget the way she did, and tha tGabriel was right to have reacted with revulsion. She wanted to scrub it all out. She wanted to back everything she had said and go back to a time when she was still just the sister that Gabriel knew and loved, not this stranger he had looked at with such disappointment.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Oh,” Arthur said, crumpling back into his seat and sighing. “Right. Well. I mean. What do you know exactly? Because to be frank, Gwen, I feel like I hardly know. And I’m somewhat involved”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love