But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
BETTY SMITHEvery day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
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Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains – a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone – just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
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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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Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe.
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I’ll not punish you for having an imagination.
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it’s flashing glory.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
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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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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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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 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.
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Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?” “They’re beanies.” “They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn.” “But I’m not in Brooklyn.” “But you’re still a Brooklynite.”
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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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