If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. — Betty Smith Child Copy Share Image
“Someone has to lose and it's just as apt to be you as the other fellow.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Neeley came home and he and Francie were sent out for the weekend meat. This was an important ritual and called for… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented?” — Betty Smith Coffee Copy Share Image
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the… — Betty Smith Book Copy Share Image
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.' — Betty Smith Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.” — Betty Smith Emotional expression Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you had nothing at all and it was raining and you were alone in the flat, it was wonderful to… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“That’s not the point. It was a shrewd move. Teachers are educating future voters. This teacher, for instance, will always say a… — Betty Smith Education Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It… — Betty Smith Astonishment Copy Share Image
“It was the best advice Francie ever got. Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind -- as they are… — Betty Smith Psychology Copy Share Image
“Our family used to be like this strong cup,” thought Francie. “It was whole and sound and held things well. When papa… — Betty Smith Family Copy Share Image
“There are two truths," said Katie finally. "As a mother, I say it would have been a terrible thing for a girl… — Betty Smith Parenting Copy Share Image
“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of… — Betty Smith Forgetting Copy Share Image
“If she never had any lovers, she kicks herself around when the change comes, thinking of all the fun she could have… — Betty Smith Change Copy Share Image
“But he refused to answer when addressed in English and forbade the speaking of English in his home. His daughters understood very… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Remember Joanna. Remember Joanna. Francie could never forget her. From that time on, remembering the stoning women, she hated women. She feared… — Betty Smith Time Copy Share Image
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time… — Betty Smith Memories Copy Share Image
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character. — Betty Smith Character Copy Share Image
The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire… — Betty Smith Differences Copy Share Image
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. — Betty Smith People Copy Share Image
“Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.” — Betty Smith Dirt Copy Share Image
