Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

— Gemma Malley

I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.

— Gemma Malley

I know that we have to live each moment because we won’t be here forever, and that I wouldn’t want to be anyway, because knowing something’s going to end makes you appreciate it more, makes you want to Seymour every moment. And I know that I won’t sign the Declaration, even if it makes me different, even if it makes me suspicious. Because no one needs to live forever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

— Gemma Malley

I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he least forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus anymore. And nor was Peter.

— Gemma Malley

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

— Gemma Malley

It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing, and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.

— Gemma Malley

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?

— Gemma Malley

Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

— Gemma Malley

Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.

— Gemma Malley

She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.

— Gemma Malley