Gloria Whelan Quotes
- I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
- You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.
- I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
- But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.
- I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into…
- I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
- Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and…
- But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the…
- It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.
- People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to…
- I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with…
- I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads…
- They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they…