Quotes from Gwendoline Riley

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.' He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.