27 Quotes by Gloria Whelan

I told them how our nurses and Father's assistant were africans. "They don't boil missionaries," I told them, my face red with anger. "They save lives and they are a whole lot smarter than the stupid, silly girls who drew that pictures.

I could see the longing in your eyes.

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.

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

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

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

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

Then came such a melodious whistle, I looked about thinking that a bird had flown into the room.

If you love books, I will give you some to take with you, and one day I will introduce you to the writers of the books.