As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“If I open this envelope fifty years from now, I will be again as I am now and there will be no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in… — 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 Copy Share Image
“A woman, big with child, sat patiently at the curb in a stiff wooden chair. She sat in the hot sunshine watching… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live. — Betty Smith 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 Copy Share Image
“She liked numbers and sums. She devised a game in which each number was a family member and the “answer” made a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie. "On beer?" "No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith 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 tenderness instead… — 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
“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
