Well’ Francie decided, ‘I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life – and nothing else but’.
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Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
More Betty Smith Quotes
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I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life’s too short. If you ever find a man you love, don’t waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, ‘I love you. How about getting married?
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And always, there was the magic of learning things.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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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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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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I get a heavy penance for something I couldn’t help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I’ll never be anything else.
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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.
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We’ll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory…let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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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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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way.
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