“And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Dream Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body.… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Best christmas Copy Share Image
A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Comfort Copy Share Image
“Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states,… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Crowning glory Copy Share Image
“...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Human soul Copy Share Image
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Irony Copy Share Image
They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Age Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Parenting Copy Share Image
“Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Laughter Copy Share Image
“All my girlhood I always planned to do something big…something constructive. It’s queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Children Copy Share Image
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Awe Copy Share Image
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Achieve Copy Share Image
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Book Copy Share Image
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Equal Copy Share Image
“I . . . you mean me?" "Quite naturally, when I said, 'What about you, yourself,' I meant you.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Sitting quietly Copy Share Image
“...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Antidote Copy Share Image
“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Afternoon sun Copy Share Image
