Tacy's Quotes

#1. 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.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#2. 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 ...

Maud Hart Lovelace

#3. The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

Neal Shusterman

#4. 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.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#5. 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.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#6. We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#7. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Wallace Stevens

#8. 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.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#9. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Judy Blume

#10. Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#12. When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

Kenny Anderson

#13. A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

Myles Munroe

#14. 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.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#15. New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#16. On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels

Helen Garner