Dorothy Gilman

“I wasn't offering her pity," Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. "Tragedies don't interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is…

— Dorothy Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

— Dorothy Gilman

The best things arrive on time.

— Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

— Dorothy Gilman

“Do you like Magda too?” His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. “She seems pleasant enough when she’s not drugged.…

— Dorothy Gilman

“If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead…

— Dorothy Gilman

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

— Dorothy Gilman

“the problems changed, but people were the same”

— Dorothy Gilman

“...why doesn't anything end happily?" "Because," said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, "there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”

— Dorothy Gilman

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

— Dorothy Gilman

“Once upon a time, [the guru] said, when God had finished making the world, he wanted to leave behind Him for man…

— Dorothy Gilman

“evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness.”

— dorothy gilman

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and…

— Dorothy Gilman

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

— Dorothy Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

— Dorothy Gilman

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can…

— Dorothy Gilman

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat,…

— Dorothy Gilman

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The…

— Dorothy Gilman

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

— Dorothy Gilman

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always,…

— Dorothy Gilman

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the…

— Dorothy Gilman

Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we…

— Dorothy Gilman

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

— Dorothy Gilman

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop…

— Dorothy Gilman

There are no happy endings there are only happy people.

— Dorothy Gilman