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Gabrielle Hamilton

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    Alone on the terrace looking up at the stars I would not feel lonely. With him glued to the screen, I feel gutted...

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    every session I had no fewer than sixteen girls with “allergies” to dairy and wheat—cheese and bread basically—but also to garlic, eggplant, corn, and nuts. They had cleverly developed “allergies,” I believe, to the foods they had seen their own mothers fearing and loathing as diet fads passed through their homes. I could’ve strangled their mothers for saddling these girls with the idea that food is an enemy—some of them only eight years old and already weird about wanting a piece of bread—and I would’ve liked to bludgeon them, too, for forcing me to participate in their young daughters’ fucked-up relationship with food.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    [I] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted ness of most people-but I knew there were people in the world who remained friends, for life, with bunk mates from sleepaway camp, and this was that group of people.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.

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    Gabrielle Hamilton

    This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.