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Whitney Otto Quotes

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

Whitney Otto
Love You, May, Changed

She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

Whitney Otto
Forgiveness, Understood
Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.120, Ballantine Books

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.

Whitney Otto
Honesty, Men, Thinking

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Whitney Otto
Love, Friendship, Two
Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.56, Ballantine Books

Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

Whitney Otto
Successful, Men, Personality

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.

Whitney Otto
Dream, Fear, Night
Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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