"The Great Gilly Hopkins" Quotes
A foster child named Gilly struggles with her identity and her place in the world as she moves from one home to another.
fiction | 148 pages | Published in 1978
Quotes
Life is a guess.
You don't know what it feels like to be unwanted. I don't care where you go - you take yourself with you.
I don't know why people are sad. That's what I'm always saying. Why be sad when all you have to do is learn something?
I don't want to be one of those people who are just remembered. I want to do something.
I'll believe in anything if it's not a lie.
Nobody never loved me. I might as well get used to it.
I don't want to be loved. I just want to be heard.
You don't just throw people away. You've got to keep them.
I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person. I just don't know how to show it.
You're not the only one who's ever been disappointed.





