Top 30 Julia Glass Quotes (2024 Update)

Julia Glass Quote: “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”

1. “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”

— Julia Glass

Julia Glass Quote: “I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”

2. “I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year’s pining, one long unfolding note.”

3. “Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year’s pining, one long unfolding note.”

— Julia Glass

Julia Glass Quote: “Here we are – despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route – at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”

4. “Here we are – despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route – at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Never talk yourself out of knowing you’re in love or into thinking that you are.”

5. “Never talk yourself out of knowing you’re in love or into thinking that you are.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.”

6. “Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “And then there’s the personal question so many of Lassie’s fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he’s the one who paid for it.”

7. “And then there’s the personal question so many of Lassie’s fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he’s the one who paid for it.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Happiness doesn’t come easily, just because you want or even deserve it,” she said. “I don’t think you’re too young to know that. So you’ve got to find your own way to let that happiness in. Sometimes, when it threatens to get away from you, you have to reach out the window and pull it in, like capturing a bird.”

8. “Happiness doesn’t come easily, just because you want or even deserve it,” she said. “I don’t think you’re too young to know that. So you’ve got to find your own way to let that happiness in. Sometimes, when it threatens to get away from you, you have to reach out the window and pull it in, like capturing a bird.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn’t be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.”

9. “What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn’t be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don’t know, giving them pep pills.”

10. “All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don’t know, giving them pep pills.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can’t even feel have pulled you off course.”

11. “There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can’t even feel have pulled you off course.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “It’s odd to spend your vacation with someone else’s music especially when you’re alone. You’re free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.”

12. “It’s odd to spend your vacation with someone else’s music especially when you’re alone. You’re free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.”

13. “Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I’ve refused to vanquish.”

14. “I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I’ve refused to vanquish.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.”

15. “Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”

16. “Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”

17. “Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Hugo planned a five-course meal: smoked duck, oyster stew, roast beef with mashed yams, a salad of apples with beets and blue cheese, then chocolate banana cream pie. Rich, rich, and richer still. Ben made pitchers of martinis and set aside thirty-five bottles of a tried-and-true Napa cabernet, pure purple velvet, and an Oregonian pinot gris, grassy and effervescent.”

18. “Hugo planned a five-course meal: smoked duck, oyster stew, roast beef with mashed yams, a salad of apples with beets and blue cheese, then chocolate banana cream pie. Rich, rich, and richer still. Ben made pitchers of martinis and set aside thirty-five bottles of a tried-and-true Napa cabernet, pure purple velvet, and an Oregonian pinot gris, grassy and effervescent.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”

19. “But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens – but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.”

20. “Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens – but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.”

— Julia Glass

Julia Glass Quote: “People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”

21. “People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “We’re all alive the day before we die.”

22. “We’re all alive the day before we die.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”

23. “Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Before heading back up the road, she had turned for a moment toward the sea. In the late afternoon light, the water was gray wrinkled with orange. Tiger water, she called it when it looked like that. Rhino water was smooth and leaden, dull as smoke. But her favorite was polar bear water, when the moon hung low and large, as if too heavy to rise very high, and scattered great radiant patches, like ice floes, across a dark blue ocean.”

24. “Before heading back up the road, she had turned for a moment toward the sea. In the late afternoon light, the water was gray wrinkled with orange. Tiger water, she called it when it looked like that. Rhino water was smooth and leaden, dull as smoke. But her favorite was polar bear water, when the moon hung low and large, as if too heavy to rise very high, and scattered great radiant patches, like ice floes, across a dark blue ocean.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently.”

25. “She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It’s the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.”

26. “My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It’s the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.”

— Julia Glass

Julia Glass Quote: “Ready how? Who’s ever ready for anything important?”

27. “Ready how? Who’s ever ready for anything important?”

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Julia Glass Quote: “When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”

28. “When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “Rage cools fast without an accessible target.”

29. “Rage cools fast without an accessible target.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don’t, well then, you don’t. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.”

30. “What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don’t, well then, you don’t. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.”

— Julia Glass

Julia Glass Quote: “I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote – first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.”

31. “I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote – first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they’re not people.”

32. “When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they’re not people.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “I’d suffocate. From my own cowardice.”

33. “I’d suffocate. From my own cowardice.”

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Julia Glass Quote: “I did not wonder if what his absence would spare me was the exhaustion of a longing so relentless it had become nearly unconscious, as if I had failed to realize that the water I drank was salty, always salty.”

34. “I did not wonder if what his absence would spare me was the exhaustion of a longing so relentless it had become nearly unconscious, as if I had failed to realize that the water I drank was salty, always salty.”

— Julia Glass

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