Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this… — Maud Hart Lovelace Believe Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on… — Maud Hart Lovelace Aspirations Copy Share Image
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. — Maud Hart Lovelace Depth Copy Share Image
Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you… — Maud Hart Lovelace Found Copy Share Image
Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I… — Maud Hart Lovelace Fingers Copy Share Image
“...the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy” — Maud Hart Lovelace Life Copy Share Image
“This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box… — Maud Hart Lovelace Personal space Copy Share Image
“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks… — Maud Hart Lovelace Life Copy Share Image
Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace Coming home Copy Share Image
“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you… — Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-tacy Copy Share Image
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I… — Maud Hart Lovelace Bigger Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of… — Maud Hart Lovelace Adventures Copy Share Image
You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will… — Maud Hart Lovelace Guides Copy Share Image
“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-tacy Copy Share Image
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace Book Copy Share Image
“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Childhood Copy Share Image
The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and… — Maud Hart Lovelace Church Copy Share Image
Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in… — Maud Hart Lovelace Corn Copy Share Image
“This going around with boys makes me sick," said Tacy. "I like Herbert Humphreys," said Tib. It was just like Tib to… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Classic literature Copy Share Image
“Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it… — Maud Hart Lovelace Conversation Copy Share Image
“... the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Life Copy Share Image
“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to… — Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-tacy Copy Share Image
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace Bliss Copy Share Image
