“I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth,… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but… — Jean Webster Copy Share
“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about” — Jean Webster Copy Share
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has… — Jean Webster Copy Share
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you… — Jean Webster Copy Share
“Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never… — Jean Webster Copy Share
“Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks… — Jean Webster Copy Share
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's… — Jean Webster Copy Share
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away… — Jean Webster Copy Share
“You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all… — Jean Webster Copy Share
“The bitterness of wearing your enemies' cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I… — Jean Webster Copy Share
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way. — Jean Webster Copy Share
