Dorothy Gilman Quotes

The best things arrive on time.

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

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

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

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

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

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

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

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

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

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

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

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

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

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

the problems changed, but people were the same