“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decided profoundly.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“She felt a little better about Leonard out here in the country. It was just being close to nature, she supposed. In… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“...the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“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… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
“Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
