Gloria Whelan Quotes

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 have existed in some distant past.

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 sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

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 looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

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 planned to change the world.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.