The Great Gilly Hopkins Quotes

“If life is so bad, how come you’re so happy?” “Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“I ain’t got no blood claim on you, and the Lord in Heaven knows I want you to have a good life with your own people. But”—her huge bass voice broke up into little squeaky pieces—“but it’s killing me to see you go.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can’t stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“Listening to that woman was like licking melted ice cream off the carton.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“- Ain't no one ever told you yet? I recon I thought you've all figured out.
- What?
- That all this stuff about happy-endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death.”
― Katherine Paterson, La grande Gilly Hopkins

“Agnes.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

“,,Kartą šiame pasaulyje mums pasiseka, ir tada mes patenkinti sakom: ,,Na va, pagaliau laiminga pabaiga, taip ir turi būti" tarsi gyvenimas privalėtų duoti visokio gerumo [...] Tačiau visą gyvenimą tikėtis gero būtų tik savęs apgaudinėjimas. Gerumo būna nedaug, jis nekrinta iš dangaus" - guodžia ją geroji globėja, Meimė Troter, mylinti Gilę visa širdimi ir sugebėjusi išmokyti ją mylėti kitus.”
― Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins