Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
BETTY SMITHThe difference between rich and poor”, said Francie, “is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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It’s come at last,” she thought, “the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn’t enough food in the house you pretended that you weren’t hungry so they could have more.
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How much do they be paying you?” he asked mellowly. “The usual salary. A little more than they think I’m worth and a little less than I think I’m worth.
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Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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Well’ Francie decided, ‘I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life – and nothing else but’.
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in.
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I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you’d give your life to spare them from.
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I want to live for something. I don’t want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.
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But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down…this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it’s stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.
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She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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