Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? — Betty Smith Bad mother Copy Share Image
“I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted. — Betty Smith Anguish Copy Share Image
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky. — Betty Smith Bad people Copy Share Image
“Some day I'll fool you, Mama. I'll do what I think is right for me and it might not be right in… — Betty Smith Fool Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so… — Betty Smith Beautiful Copy Share Image
“All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life it's in him to live.” — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or the last time.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.” — Betty Smith Family Copy Share Image
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“On a rainy day, she wouldn’t give a lesson. She’d take a block of paper and a stick of charcoal and sketch… — Betty Smith Rainy day Copy Share Image
As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“They came together, they loved and they married. In innocence, and never dreaming how courageous they were, they started a new life… — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,” Miss Lizzie said. “Sometimes I think it’s better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I think it's good that people like us can waste something once in a while and get the feeling of how it… — Betty Smith Money Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Book Copy Share Image
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was… — Betty Smith Consequence Copy Share Image
“Francie is smart, she thought. She must go to high school and maybe beyond that. She's a learner and she'll be somebody… — Betty Smith Better way Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Beautiful Copy Share Image
“No, I ain't big enough. I ain't big enough to do a thing like that. I gotta think of myself and my… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Ghosts are not always those who pass through closed doors,” said Mary Rommely. “Katie has told how her husband used to talk… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“You'll never raise that one,' they told her. 'Her color ain't good. If the good Lord takes her, it will be for… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me… — Betty Smith Being truthful Copy Share Image
“The spare Tynmore spinsters lay in their hard virginal bed. They groped for each other’s hands. “Did you hear it, Sister?” asked… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick.” — Betty Smith College Copy Share Image
Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. — Betty Smith Character Copy Share Image
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
