“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.… — Betty Smith Berries 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… — Betty Smith Next year Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith Gone 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… — Betty Smith Judaism 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… — Betty Smith Better life 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,… — Betty Smith Dream 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… — Betty Smith Children 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 Life 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… — Betty Smith Born Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make… — Betty Smith Complicated Copy Share Image
“Hildy O’Dair is old for her age,” she thought. “It’s like powder was sprinkled on her yellow hair. But she’s not much… — Betty Smith Best friend Copy Share Image
“One day they’re babies in buggies and the next day they’re in here taking picks. Kids grow up quick in this neighborhood.” — Betty Smith Next day Copy Share Image
“If she never had any lovers, she kicks herself around when the change comes, thinking of all the fun she could have… — Betty Smith Change Copy Share Image
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In… — Betty Smith Carpenter Copy Share Image
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. — Betty Smith People Copy Share Image
“If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.” — Betty Smith Writing Copy Share Image
“No, I ain't big enough. I ain't big enough to do a thing like that. I gotta think of myself and my… — Betty Smith God bless Copy Share Image
“But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.” — Betty Smith Living Copy Share Image
“There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. a” — Betty Smith Dark Copy Share Image
“She did not hate Miss Garnder anymore. She didn’t like her, but she felt sorry for her. Miss Garnder had nothing in… — Betty Smith Felt Sorry Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Beautiful Copy Share Image
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the… — Betty Smith Bitter Copy Share Image
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it… — Betty Smith Brooklyn Copy Share Image
