Quote by Betty Smith Download Open image ““Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick.”” — Betty Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
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“College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes!” — Jillian Dodd Copy Share Image
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“I grin back and breathe in the sweet smell of sweat, whiteboard marker and fear. The smells of high school.” — Charlie Human Copy Share Image
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“I'm graduating and she corrected my vocabulary the other day. I said I felt nauseous, and she said the word I wanted was nauseated.… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“After all, when I was in school, I thought I had a good time. It was only after I graduated and got out into… — Jill Smolinski Copy Share Image
“And I suppose you’re going to sit beside me every single class?” “I don’t know. You seem like an angry student. I’m not sure… — K A Tucker Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith 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 tenderness instead… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith 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 had no… — Betty Smith 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 the cops… — Betty Smith 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, if everything… — Betty Smith 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 sun, and… — Betty Smith 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 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 - the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
