People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, …

- Maud Hart Lovelace

Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spre…

- Maud Hart Lovelace

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them …

- Maud Hart Lovelace

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day t…

- Maud Hart Lovelace

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

- Maud Hart Lovelace

When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going…

- Maud Hart Lovelace