The world was hers for the reading.
BETTY SMITHFrancie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be… safe. At least she knows she’s living.
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It’s come at last”, she thought, “the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
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She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.
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It’s a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don’t want to understand it all. It’s beautiful because it’s always a mystery.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
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Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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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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As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
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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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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence.
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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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There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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New York! I’ve always wanted to see it and now I’ve see it. It’s true what they say– it’s the most wonderful city in the world.
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