“The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. They are his contact with the supplies that keep life… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The Nolan's just could't get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn't enough. They… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Katie! Don't nag! All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the life it's in him to live.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.' — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The waiting gave them a purpose in life for a little while and, almost, they felt necessary again.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right. Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” — 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
