Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All her life, from the time she was eight or nine years old, Gloria had relied on a neat, nearly automatic little trick of…

— Richard Yates

“Your “Gloria” lives within you.”

— Abraham Verghese

“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver,…

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

“She ate life with unapologetic enthusiasm and took as many helpings as she wanted.”

— Kristin Hannah

“I think as I often have that my mission is to layer her world with richness-not facts, but other hearts, desires, stories, a world…

— P. Carey Reid

“I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even…

— Sonja Livingston

“She has come to stay, to be with Claire for a day or two. To sleep in the spare room. To accompany her dying,…

— Colum McCann

“She is a beautiful recipe of so many wonderful things.”

— Steve Maraboli

“I'd like to take Gloria abroad," he complained, "except for this damn war—and next to that I'd sort of like to have a place…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a…

— Karen White

“So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.”

— Emma Donoghue