“People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“I've got to stop thinking about myself so much--about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, quote from Betsy and Joe
Maud Hart Lovelace
Born place: in Mankato, MN, The United States
Born date April 25, 1892
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“Omul e ca o țeavă de sticlă prin care alunecă rotonduri colorate: la cei mai mulți, unul într-o viață. Dacă e roșu, se zice că omul e rău. Dacă e galben, omul e bun. Dacă sînt două, unul după altul - unul roșu, celălalt galben, - atunci se zice că e vorba de un caracter instabil. Noi, mușcații de șarpe, străbatem într-o singură viață, drumul pe care altminteri o specie întreagă de oameni îl urcă de-a lungul vârstei unei lumi: bilele colorate gonesc în șir de-a lungul țevii de sticlă, și când s-au sfârșit - sîntem profeți, oglinzi ale dumnezeirii.”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Golem
“When he left for his date, he was late”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Family
“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. ”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
“No matter what,” he said, his voice fierce and strong and rumbling through me. “You told me I was home to you and I get it. You’re home to me. I’ve never had a home. I like the one I found and I’m not losin’ it. No matter what.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Rock Chick Renegade
“A person’s never too old for stories, Bill. Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Wind Through the Keyhole
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