All Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
- It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime. Better
- Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped… Account
- For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady… Bartered
- It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us. Awe
- Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be… All
- There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. Addition
- You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you… Dream
- Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your… Best Christmas
- The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. Antidote
- Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart. Close
- I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood… Carry
- A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to… Bodily