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.

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  Past, Long, People

  Gloria Whelan (2014). “Parade of Shadows”, p.16, Open Road Media

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

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  Littles, Understood

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

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  Feelings, Guilt, Important

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

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  Giving, Ends, Dies

  Gloria Whelan (2013). “Small Acts of Amazing Courage”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Team, Bird, Balls

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

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  Giving Up, Giving, Knows

  Gloria Whelan (2009). “Angel on the Square”, p.14, Harper Collins

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

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  Car, World, Passports

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• 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.

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  Snakes, Waiting, Toads

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• 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 their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.

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  School, Secret, Making Friends

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• 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 work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

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  Children, House, Cooking

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• 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.

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  Book, Talking, World

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• 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 one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

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  Brother, Hate, Remember

  Gloria Whelan (2009). “Summer of the War”, p.13, Harper Collins

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

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  Get Better, Ifs

  Gloria Whelan (2014). “All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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