Top 35 Glendy Vanderah Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m from another planet. My people can make good things happen.”

— Glendy Vanderah

2. “Remember that feeling you described – the ‘horrific crush of humanity’ on your soul – maybe that’s another way of saying you’re afraid people will hurt you if you let them get close.”

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3. “Art is supposed to represent how you see the world, not exactly copy it.”

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4. “The forest around Kinney Cottage was glorious, every leaf and bough sparkling with raindrop jewels of golden sun.”

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5. “I’m sick. I can’t just ‘recover and move on.’” “If you believe that, you won’t.” “Like most people who’ve never experienced it, your view of depression is optimistically misguided.”

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6. “Dealing with the pain was a day-by-day ordeal.”

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7. “Hatred was an addictive emotion, and it thrived best with frequent injections that kept the high going.”

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8. “Why do men often call smart women devious?”

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9. “Such was life with a double dose of analytical genes.”

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10. “People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.” “I know. I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.”

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11. “We look like starlight. It’s not exactly a body.”

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12. “If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding petty resentments.”

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13. “Who could know their future with a person they cared about? And even if they did somehow find out something bad was going to happen with that person, would they give up on them? Let them suffer alone? Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb.”

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14. “Nothing like stars to show us our little arguments are meaningless.”

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15. “Like most people who’ve never experienced it, your view of depression is optimistically misguided.”

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16. “Ursa couldn’t take her eyes off the tiny birds. “This is a miracle! This is it, the first miracle!”

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17. “She’s kind of like a baby. She didn’t know she was supposed to grow up, and that makes her more fun than other grown-up people.”

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18. “Gabe started to live as Ursa did, in an infinite present disconnected from the past or future.”

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19. “What we have doesn’t happen every day. I am afraid it will never happen again in my life.”

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20. “Lots of crazy people are smart.”

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21. “Of course, later, they decided my problem was mental illness.” “You say that like you don’t believe it anymore.” “I feel so much better with you. Is that temporary, do you think?” “I can’t say.”

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22. “Art was a form of self-soothing for Ursa. When she wanted something or missed someone, she would often draw whatever it was to satisfy her need.”

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23. “Why not? We can’t see gravity, and it has a strong effect on us.”

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24. “As always, words fail when you most want to say the right thing.”

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25. “When Ursa walked away she’d said, I’m going where you want me to go.”

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26. “What was Ursa doing?” “She was watching TV in the living room. There was a movie on – that one where the twins meet at camp.” “Parent Trap.” “Ursa liked that movie.”

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27. “Jo loved it. They were already like old friends, playing off each other’s humor.”

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28. “Anyway, your face has a lot of your mother in it. Your eyes are like hers.” “I know. I tried to grow the beard over them, but it wouldn’t take.”

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29. “But it’s not just that they can forgo society, it’s more like they need to. For people like that, the natural world is vital, a spiritual experience.”

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30. “Why won’t you believe I’m from the stars?”

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31. “Literary Agency. I thank her for her commitment to getting it published, and also for her early pruning of my convoluted backstories.”

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32. “We’re at the creek catching fish with a holey net. Understandably, this may take some time. Come join us if you enjoy frustration.”

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33. “Why do you hate him so much now that you know the whole story? George and your mother obviously stayed with people they didn’t love to make their partners happy. Maybe they realized they shouldn’t have done that, but by then, they had children who would be hurt by a divorce.”

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34. “Jo had absorbed many of her parents’ philosophies, and one of them was the belief that children deserved to be told the truth as much as possible.”

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35. “Maybe it has something to do with how they can turn their backs on the comforts of society for long periods of time. But it’s not just that they can forgo society, it’s more like they need to. For people like that, the natural world is vital, a spiritual experience.”

— Glendy Vanderah

36. “The horrific crush of humanity on my soul.”

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37. “I wonder if I’d get arrested for indecent exposure if a forest ranger happened by,” Jo said. “Is it indecent when you don’t have anything to expose?”

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38. “The horrific crush of humanity on my soul. Haven’t you ever felt it?”

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39. “His eyes, the only feature that stood out in his heavily bearded face, were as sharp as shattered blue glass.”

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