Top 53 Maud Hart Lovelace Quotes
#1. Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.
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#2. It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say.
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#3. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.
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#4. The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
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#5. The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen ...
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#6. Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard
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#7. She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.
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#8. After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.
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#9. We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.
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#10. Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.
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#11. I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.
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#12. Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?
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#13. And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
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#14. You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
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#15. I've got to stop thinking about myself so much
about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet.
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#16. Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.
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#17. It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.
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#18. You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
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#20. Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself.
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#21. They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
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#22. Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.
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#23. Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but ... "
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.
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#24. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
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#25. You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.
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#26. What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise.
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#27. Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck.
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#28. Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.
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#29. Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
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#30. Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.
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#31. We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.
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#32. Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
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#33. Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.
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#34. But perhaps people who liked to write aways made lists! Just for the fun of it.
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#35. The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.
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#36. Sometimes the west showed clouds like tiny pink feathers; sometimes it showed purple mountains and green lakes; sometimes the clouds were scarlet with gold around the edges. Betsy
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#37. I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
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#39. One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
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#40. And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then
" he turned swiftly to look into her fade
" when can we get married?
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#41. She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
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#42. Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked.
We certainly do.'
I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.'
Poor Joe!'
Lucky Larry!
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#43. That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether they're going to take you to a party.
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#44. Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.
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#45. The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
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#46. Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.
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#47. In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.
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#48. Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
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#50. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
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#51. The poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy
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#52. When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.
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#53. The five-year-olds were the most important members of the large doll families. Everything pleasant happened to them. They had all the adventures.
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