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“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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Gloria Whelan
Source : Gloria Whelan (2014). “Parade of Shadows”, p.16, Open Road Media
#Past Quotes
#Long Quotes
#People Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Children Quotes
#House Quotes
#Cooking Quotes
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“I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.”
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Gloria Whelan
#Car Quotes
#World Quotes
#Passports Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#School Quotes
#Secret Quotes
#World Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Giving Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.”
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Gloria Whelan
#Littles Quotes
#Understood Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Feelings Quotes
#Guilt Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.”
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Gloria Whelan
#Get Better Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Book Quotes
#Talking Quotes
#World Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Snakes Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
#Toads Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
Source : Gloria Whelan (2009). “Summer of the War”, p.13, Harper Collins
#Brother Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Remember Quotes
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“It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.”
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Gloria Whelan
Source : Gloria Whelan (2009). “Angel on the Square”, p.14, Harper Collins
#Giving Up Quotes
#Giving Quotes
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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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Gloria Whelan
#Team Quotes
#Bird Quotes
#Woods Quotes
