Tori Whitaker > Quotes

“The whole of one's life need not be defined on the grounds of one decision. While good may come when others support you and affirm you and even forgive you, you will never be complete unless these things you provide for yourself.”
― Tori Whitaker, Millicent Glenn's Last Wish

“While good may come when others support you and affirm you and even forgive you, you will never be complete unless these things you provide for yourself.”
― Tori Whitaker, Millicent Glenn's Last Wish

“Ford sent company investigators to where employees lived to ensure they had clean homes and bank savings accounts, and weren’t prone to drunkenness or mistreating their wives.”
― Tori Whitaker, A Matter of Happiness

“By law, since 1964 under President Johnson, the United States was the only country that could claim the bourbon name on a bottle.”
― Tori Whitaker, A Matter of Happiness

“A Kentucky hug referred to the fire going down your esophagus with a sip of bourbon.”
― Tori Whitaker, A Matter of Happiness

“No matter how old we get, no matter the pent-up resentment or how wronged or injured we've felt all our lives, we all want our parents' approval. We strive to be granted their love.”
― Tori Whitaker, Millicent Glenn's Last Wish

“If I were to be granted my life’s last wish, it would be that my daughter—and her daughter, and her daughter, and the daughters who come after—would not wait until they were ninety-one years old to accept this truth: the whole of one’s life need not be defined on the grounds of one decision. While good may come when others support you and affirm you and even forgive you, you will never be complete unless these things you provide for yourself.”
― Tori Whitaker, Millicent Glenn's Last Wish