thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Thoughts Copy Share Image
“I . . . you mean me?" "Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant you.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Friend Copy Share Image
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Flower Copy Share Image
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Bird Copy Share Image
“The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Coach Copy Share Image
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Book Copy Share Image
“And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Indians Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Affirmative Copy Share Image
“...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Growing old Copy Share Image
“Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Comfort Copy Share Image
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Arithmetic Copy Share Image
“Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver,… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Court Copy Share Image
“Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states,… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Crowning glory Copy Share Image
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Dream Copy Share Image
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Duty Copy Share Image
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Time Copy Share Image
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body.… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Christmas Copy Share Image
“There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Afternoon sun Copy Share Image
“Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Fulfillment Copy Share Image
“All my girlhood I always planned to do something big…something constructive. It’s queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Children Copy Share Image
“Seventy-five years ago a young woman kept a diary in which she wrote some of her innermost thoughts, many of the daily… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“...Let me tell you something, Allen. I've been around now, enough to know there are some bigger things in the world than… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Marriage Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Parenting Copy Share Image
“You know, Grace, it's queer but I don't feel narrow. I feel broad. How can I explain it to you, so you… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Death Copy Share Image
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Awe Copy Share Image
“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Clever Copy Share Image
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Irony Copy Share Image
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Earth Copy Share Image
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