3 Quotes & Sayings By Gloria Smith

Gloria Smith has been fascinated with the world of children’s literature for over thirty years. She is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction books for young readers including the award-winning and best selling "The Secret Door," "Secret Door," and "Hidden Window," and two chapter books: "Kitty's Big Break" and "Kitty's New Ride." Gloria is a former elementary school teacher who now lives in northern Virginia with her husband, sons, and three dogs.

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Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive. Gloria Smith
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Got to go sing in a few minutes... no, that's GOT to go sing in a few minutes, as in... GOT TO GO SING in a few minutes... hahaha It's an all consuming compassion/obsession... a drawing... a wonderful bliss... a union of soul and spirit, of notes and voice, of all of life's vibrating essence. String theory... all of life is vibrating, is alive, and the life of that essence is music itself! ! Gloria Smith