Gloria Whelan Quotes

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.

~ Gloria Whelan

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.

~ Gloria Whelan

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

~ Gloria Whelan

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.

~ Gloria Whelan

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.

~ Gloria Whelan

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

~ Gloria Whelan

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.

~ Gloria Whelan

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

~ Gloria Whelan

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

~ Gloria Whelan

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

~ Gloria Whelan