She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. - Betty Smith
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
- Betty Smith
The world was hers for the reading. - Betty Smith
The world was hers for the reading.
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. - Betty Smith
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. - Betty Smith
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrow… - Betty Smith
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrow…
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even thoug… - Betty Smith
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even thoug…
It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions… - Betty Smith
It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions…
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. - Betty Smith
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood. - Betty Smith
Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
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