“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the… — Betty Smith Book Copy Share Image
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“When the strong healthy boy, howling at the indignity of the birth process, was put to her breast, she felt a wild… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the… — Betty Smith Adults Copy Share Image
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer… — Betty Smith Being lonely Copy Share Image
“Neeley, if you had to die, wouldn't it be wonderful to die now—while you believed that everything was perfect, the way this… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“What had granma Mary Rommely said? "To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or… — Betty Smith Last time Copy Share Image
Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'. — Betty Smith Giving Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between happiness and contentment?" “Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful… — Betty Smith Happiness Copy Share Image
“That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe… — Betty Smith Good thing Copy Share Image
“Francie is smart, she thought. She must go to high school and maybe beyond that. She's a learner and she'll be somebody… — Betty Smith Better way Copy Share Image
“An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.” — Betty Smith Trees Copy Share Image
I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go… — Betty Smith Charity Copy Share Image
“Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.” — Betty Smith Oh well Copy Share Image
“A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.” — Betty Smith Irish women Copy Share Image
“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.” — Betty Smith Family Copy Share Image
“Francie said nothing more. Katie knew that she was letting them down. But she couldn't help it, she just couldn't help it.… — Betty Smith Katierommely Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because… — Betty Smith Firsts Copy Share Image
I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong… — Betty Smith Feel good Copy Share Image
“If I open this envelope fifty years from now, I will be again as I am now and there will be no… — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“Oh, I want to hold it all!" she cried. "I want to hold the way the night is—cold without wind. And the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“It was as if nothing wrong could happen in a world where things balanced so stilly.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always.” — Betty Smith Psychology Copy Share Image
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or the last time.” — Betty Smith Last time Copy Share Image
