Secret of the Emerald Star Quotes

“But it's awful if people won't change," Robin said.
"Time changes things," Mother assured her. "The people who won't change have sons and daughters growing up, and the sons and daughters have children of their own. Although you can't talk to the old people with much success, the younger ones belong to a new world and sometimes they will listen, and their sons and daughters will listen. So old prejudices will die and there is change and growth. You young people are the ones who will make this move faster.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star

“One of the things I like about big cities is the way people of different races and religions get to know one another. There's so much we all need to learn. If we only talk to our own kind of people , how can we learn enough in time to learn to live safely in the sort of world we have today?”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star

“Pity was looking down on someone less fortunate than yourself. It was quite different from sympathy.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star

“If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star

“Of course everyone's a person. But sometimes we act as if people were only labels. Like deaf, or blind, or lame. We forget about the person and only see the word.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star

“Emotions often change by morning. A sorrow that seems unbearable in the darkness often disappears with the coming of the sun.”
― Phyllis A. Whitney, Secret of the Emerald Star