You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHThings last so much longer than people.
More Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow.
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They are the most painful tears in the world … the tears of the aged … for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
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When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ is just the way you feel inside you that nothin’ can stop you from livin’ on.
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For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
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Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
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Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you’ve got to dream a garden.
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