“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”
Ellen Gilchrist“I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.”
Ellen Gilchrist“Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.”
Ellen Gilchrist“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”
Ellen Gilchrist“That's great," Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first woman I ever knew that could. Maybe you're the missing link, Amanda."Maybe you ought to get a job for the 'Ladies Home Journal.' They like simplistic shit like that.”
Ellen Gilchrist“We live at the level of our language.”
Ellen Gilchrist“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”
Ellen Gilchrist, The Courts of Love: Stories“We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico”
Ellen Gilchrist, Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.”
Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories