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
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
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
“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
“I've got to stop thinking about myself so much--about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've… — Maud Hart Lovelace People 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
“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like… — Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-tacy Copy Share Image
When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another… — Maud Hart Lovelace Boys Copy Share Image
People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would… — Maud Hart Lovelace Eye 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
“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
I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace Finish Copy Share Image
“New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decided profoundly.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-tacy Copy Share Image
