“...Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Growing old Copy Share Image
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Duty Copy Share Image
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Believe 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 Christmas Copy Share Image
“He [Sam] wrote it with great flourishes, his hand making many dizzy elliptical journeys before it settled down to make a elaborate… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Earth Copy Share Image
“Seventy-five years ago a young woman kept a diary in which she wrote some of her innermost thoughts, many of the daily… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Five years Copy Share Image
“Small wonder that love would break under circumstances like these. Standing there in the soddie door, she seemed two personalities. One argued… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Fulfillment Copy Share Image
not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Clever Copy Share Image
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Heart Copy Share Image
“The wheels where enormous wooden affairs, the back ones rounding up over the windows of the coach.” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Love Copy Share Image
“...For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Accounts Copy Share Image
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Dark Copy Share Image
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Untrustworthy Copy Share Image
“...Let me tell you something, Allen. I've been around now, enough to know there are some bigger things in the world than… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Marriage Copy Share Image
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Arithmetic Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Affirmative Copy Share Image
“Ella held herself rigidly against all emotion until she arrived at the dark haven of her room. Then she threw herself across… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Time Copy Share Image
“You know, Grace, it's queer but I don't feel narrow. I feel broad. How can I explain it to you, so you… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Death Copy Share Image
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver,… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Court Copy Share Image
